Subject: Re: Exclave inside Steinstuecken
Date: Dec 12, 2001 @ 17:19
Author: ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "lnadybal" <lnadybal@h...> wrote:
> Re: the bridge and land under it at Steinstuecken, the Allied
> Kommandatura issued its concurrence with the agreement between the
> Berlin Senate and the GDR/DDR on 3 June 1972. The treaty text is
> attached to the concurrence document. It states that territory
> which comes to be part of West Berlin at Steinstueken is: "ein
> gebietsstreifen entlang der Eisenbahnstrecke Seddin - Berlin
(west)...
> sowie die von diesem Gebietstreifen vor Steinstuecken nach Westen
> abzweigende Strasse bis zur westlichen Strassengrenze der Teltower
> Strasse in der Breite der Fahrbahn von ca. 3 meter EINSCHLIESSLICH
DER
> BRUECKE als Zugaenge nach Steinstuecken.... ca 2.3 hectares"
>
> (Summary Translation: what is added to West Berlin is a strip of
land
> along the Berlin - Seddin railway and the street branching to the
west
> of this strip to the western border of Teltower Str. in a width of
> approximately 3 meters, including the bridge as access routes to
> Steinstuecken.)
>
> In short, the bridge and road are mentioned as transferring, but
> nothing about the underlying railbed. There is no shortening of
the
> east German territory on which the track lies south of the bridge
> mentioned in the treaty. Attached to the treaty is the map I
posted,
> but it doesn't answer the question about the territory occupied by
> the railbed.
>
> It's often been said that borders are the only thing that can go
for
> two thousand miles or more and never move - maybe they don't move
up
> and down, either. What if they had found oil under the bridge?
>
> Regards
>
> LN
>
> This is a classic case of leaving out of the treaty the detail as
to
> which entity the ground under the bridge belongs.
>
> -