Subject: Re: Towns across borders<br/>
Date: Jun 21, 2002 @ 07:26<br/>
Author: djtilque (&quot;djtilque&quot; &lt;dtilque@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-866713292">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Manfred Haertel &lt;Manfred.Haertel@r...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; There are at least 4 towns (may be more) split by the<br/>
&gt; border between Germany and Luxembourg: Echternach,<br/>
&gt; Wasserbillig, Wallendorf and Bollendorf. They were<br/>
&gt; split long time ago, at the Congress of Vienna in<br/>
&gt; 1815, when the parts of Luxembourg east of the rivers <br/>
&gt; Our/Sure/Moselle were given to Prussia. <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>One of my criteria is that the two towns have identical names. And <br/>
this criterion is why there are few if any examples in Europe. The <br/>
European practice seems to be to give one of them a new name.<br/>
<br/>
Luxembourg name    German name<br/>
Echternach         Echternacherbrück<br/>
Wasserbillig       Overbillig<br/>
Bollendorf-Pont    Bollendorf<br/>
<br/>
Not sure about Wallendorf as it seems to be entirely on the German <br/>
side of the river. At least that&#39;s what it shows at a mapping site I <br/>
found:<br/>
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