Subject: Canton Appenzell<br/>
Date: Nov 07, 2001 @ 09:58<br/>
Author: anton_zeilinger@hotmail.com (anton_zeilinger@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-634167380">Hi,<br/>
<br/>
I&#39;ve found something interesting about the canton Appenzell in <br/>
Switzerland. Apparantly a part of it (county oberegg, an exclave) <br/>
used to be as fragmented as Baarle:<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.oberegg.ch/bezirksinfos/">http://www.oberegg.ch/bezirksinfos/</a><br/>
<br/>
Click on &quot;Lage&quot;, and you can see a map of this exclave of Inner <br/>
Rhodes. <br/>
<br/>
If you click on &quot;Geschichte&quot; you can read about its story <br/>
(Unfortunately it&#39;s only in German):<br/>
<br/>
Because of the protestant reformation and the different quarrels <br/>
arising from it, the canton Appenzell was divided into two half <br/>
cantons. Catholic towns were to form Inner Rhodes, reformed towns <br/>
formed Outer Rhodes.<br/>
<br/>
However, the catholic inhabitants of county Oberegg and Hirschberg <br/>
did not want to belong to Outer Rhodes, and so in 1597, when the <br/>
division was made official, houses and farms in that area inhabited <br/>
by Catholics went to Inner Rhodes, those inhabited by Protestants <br/>
went to Outer Rhodes, subject to ongoing change, whenever inhabitants <br/>
moved!<br/>
<br/>
In 1637 the then current situation was fixed, meaning that any house <br/>
being in Outer/Inner Rhodes at that moment was to remain in that <br/>
halfcanton forever.<br/>
<br/>
This situation was perpetuated as long as 1872, when Appenzell was <br/>
forced by the federal government to find a solution, and all of <br/>
Oberegg went to Innerrhodes.<br/>
<br/>
Unfortunately for us borderphiles, these borders don&#39;t exist anymore, <br/>
but I thought that others might be interested in this story...<br/>
<br/>
Apparently, Inner Rhodes still has a few exclaves, namely Oberegg, <br/>
and two catolic convents, see:<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ai.ch/_e/portrait/geografie.shtml">http://www.ai.ch/_e/portrait/geografie.shtml</a><br/>
<br/>
regards,<br/>
Anton Z.</div>