Subject: Re: German tripoints
Date: Nov 26, 2001 @ 07:20
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Manfred Haertel <Manfred.Haertel@r...> wrote:
> kahbeh@h... wrote:
> >
> > Having participated in at least part of the wonderful GCEBE, I
> > revived one of my old (unfinished) projects and listed the German
> > tripoints, I found 14 of them. they are listed at
> > http://members.tripodnet.nl/grenze/germantripoints.htm
>
> I was at the tripoint Hessen/Rheinland-Pfalz/Nordrhein-Westfalen some
> weeks ago. It's not easy to find (inside a forest), there is a sign
> "Dreiländereck" on a way that starts on the road that leads from
> Rheinland-Pfalz to Hessen (on the Rheinland-Pfalz side), but this is the
> wrong way! The easiest way to find this tripoint is to take the first
> way into the forest at the Hessen side of the road and then, after about
> 1 km, take a small way left that leads to the actual tripoint.
>
> I *think* this tripoint is a wet one actually. The tripoint marker is on
> one side of a small brook, beside a bridge, and I *think* the brook is
> the actual border of the Hessen state.
>
> I do not have pictures of this tripoint, but the GPS coordinates: N 50
> 41 09, E 08 07 33 .
>
> Is anyone also interested how to find the northernmost point of the
> Rheinland-Pfalz state? ;-)
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Manfred Härtel mailto:Manfred.Haertel@r...
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