Subject: Jägerhaus and other border pictures
Date: Jun 15, 2002 @ 17:59
Author: Manfred Haertel (Manfred Haertel <Manfred.Haertel@...>)
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Hello!

And now my new border pictures are uploaded. First the ones of the
Jägerhaus.

http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?1 : Old customs office beside
the river Our, but don't be confused, the Our never was the border here!
The customs office is about 2 km inside the country Belgium (also
according to an old map I have).

http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?2 : On the other side of the
road we see a sign leading to the Jägerhaus.

http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?3 : Here we are: In the
background you see the Jägerhaus. The border once was running straight
ahead through the middle of the building, now it turns right angle.

http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?4 : View along the
"redirected" border, unfortunately one can't recognize the next border
stone in the background, where the border turns left again, around the
Jägerhaus.

http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?5 : Note the border stone
beside the "Belgium" sign and see that the border still runs through the
*garden* of the Jägerhaus!

http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?6 : The Jägerhaus itself.

Then we drove south, through Luxembourg. The next destination was
Vianden, where the border between Luxembourg and Germany is dry. There
is also a beautiful castle at Vianden, visible at pictures
http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?7 and
http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?8 , which actually have
nothing to do with borders. ;-)

We were looking for the border in the suburbs of Vianden in the
mountains, but failed to do so. The only thing we found was an exit of
Vianden leading to Germany, visible at
http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?9 , but it was forbidden to
drive on that small road. I *think* the border was 200m right of this
road, in parallel, but we haven't found it.

So we went to the "official dry border crossing" at the German town Roth
at the Our. You can find these pictures starting with
http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?10 (use the arrow buttons to
move back and forth). Note that the large lines over the road are *not*
the border.

The real border is visible at
http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?12 : There is a border stone
beside the "Luxembourg" sign. Note that there is another border stone in
the background!!! Is the border running along the right edge of the road
for some meters and then turning away through the mountains? You can't
decide when looking at the border stones. The second one is visible at
http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?14 , as seen from the German
side.

Does anybody have detailed maps of this border line?

Then we drove further south and found two towns, divided by the river
Sur/Sauer between Luxemburg and Germany. I knew of Echternach and
Wasserbillig before, but never heared of Wallendorf (starting with
http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?16 ) and Bollendorf (starting
with http://rz-home.de/~mhaertel/bedelu/dia.cgi?19 ).

The naming has the same scheme as in Echternach and Wasserbillig, just
the other way around. While the German parts of Echternach and
Wasserbillig are called Echternacherbrück and Wasserbilligerbrück, the
Luxembourgian parts of Wallendorf and Bollendorf are called
Wallendorf-Pont and Bollendorf-Pont (Brück=Pont=Bridge). Note that
Bollendorf-Pont is called Bollendorferbrück at the German town exit sign
near the bridge.

Enjoy my pictures.

Best regards

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Manfred Härtel mailto:Manfred.Haertel@...
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