Cf. http://www.kaufering.de/Geschichte/bahnhof/bahnhof.htm (2nd pic
from the bottom).
Peter S.

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Peter Smaardijk <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> It looks very much like a piece of rail to me (from a railway).
Bochum
> might well be the place where the thing was made.
> Peter S.
> --- "Jan S. Krogh" <la9qca@q...> wrote:
> > On the border between Lithuania and Russia in the Lithuanian town
of
> > Vistytis, on the northern shore of Lake Vistytis we found
remainings
> > of a
> > probably German boundary marker from the 19th century. It is still
> > the only
> > marker to be found on the present ltru boundary at this place.
> > The de facto ltru boundary is still the same as the former deru
> > boundary.
> > (We also found rests of a hexagonal German boundary marker on the
> > southern
> > shore of the same lake, but of this only 1-2 cm was visible above
the
> > ground.)
> > On this first mentioned marker I could read "BOCHUM 1877 [] ST".
I am
> > not
> > quite sure if it should read 1877 or 1811. The last two digits are
> > hard to
> > read. Does somebody have some idea what this means?
> > Regards,
> > Jan
> > Vilnius, Lithuania
> > http://home.no.net/enklaver
> >
> >
>
> > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/jpeg name=bochum_1877.JPG
>
>
>
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