I think you are right - there are many instances. I believe you have
to differentiate between cateogries of such places to not divert too
far from the initial message. Towns that are "border towns" and
adjacent to border towns of neighboring countries wouldn't fit the
scenario - the border came first.
Towns that were once one where a border came through afterwards, split
a town into two. They don't seem to "fit", either.
"Towns across borders" implies one township with a border through it.
Strictly speaking, maybe there are none of those. I picture such a
town as being where one mayor and/or one city council rules the parts
of town on both sides of the border, where the local municipal laws
and regulations are the same and apply equally in the two parts, and
where the corporate entity (the thing that is liable for payment of
claims from damaged residents) is one and the same regardless of the
fact that it is in two countries (i.e., national laws applicable to
the town might apply to one part and not another, but where local laws
are the law in both parts). Where taxes are equal regardless on which
side of the border the towns' inhabitants live. Is there such a
place? ONE town in two countries? I doubt it, now that I think about
it. Certainly in even those towns split by what was a
initially only a demarcation or cease fire or truce line, like the E-W
German border, after the war, during occupation zone existence and
before there were two countries, the authorities, once the split was
made, certainly said on day two of the split, "from now on my rules
apply" and "we on this side are no longer connected to those on the
other side".
Regards
Len Nadybal
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jan S. Krogh" <la9qca@q...> wrote:
> From: Manfred.Haertel@r... [mailto:Manfred.Haertel@r...]
>
> Were there also such cases *outside* of Berlin?
>
> If you do not have the iron curtain in mind I think there must be
several
> different places in the world. Mostly in Central Europe (e.g.
> France/Switzerland) but also e.g. Latvia/Estonia - Valka/Valga. It
is not so
> seldom as one should believe!
>
> Jan S.
> Vilnius, Lithuania