Subject: RE: Anyone know of the Mundatwald?
Date: May 30, 2002 @ 07:56
Author: marcelmiquel@navegalia.com (<marcelmiquel@...>)
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You can find the 1984 and 1991 treaties ( in french ), on the links
below ( perhaps you have to cut and paste the lines ):

http://www.doc.diplomatie.gouv.fr/BASISCGI/BASIS/
pacte/webext/bilat/DDD/19840047.pdf

http://www.doc.diplomatie.gouv.fr/BASISCGI/BASIS/
pacte/webext/bilat/DDD/19900402.pdf

It wasn't a sovereignty dipute, but a property question.

We await for your map.

Marcel




>Until 1989 or so, there was an area along the French German border
>between Saarbruecken, close to Karlsruhe, north of the French town of
>Wissenbourg called the Mundatwald. It remained under temporary French
>government administration because it formed the watershed for
>Wissenbourg. Helmuth Kohl, right at the time of the German
>unification, announced on TV that Germany was giving the area to
>France.
>
>I'm trying to determine what original document allowed this piece of
>of the treaty in which Germany ceded it.
>
>I was there in 1986 as a civilian employee of the US government (the
>US had a military base on the top of the mountain at the north tip of
>the forest - whose southern perimeter was, for 200 meters or so, the
>fence that lined the administrative border. The soldiers had actually
>built a staircase over the fence so they could patrol the side under
>French administration. When they crossed the fence, they were still
>in Germany, and had the right to go there at the time.

>I'll post a map of the good map that I have of the place as soon as I
>locate it.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>Thanks
>
>Len Nadybal








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