It
seems very likely you are right!
Enclosed is a photo of the marker mentioned from the southern shore
of Lake Vistytis. It was said it was destroyed by the Russians in 1940, and that
it had a German Eagle on the top. At the Lithuanian border guard museum there
might be samples of the authentic boundary markers from the delt
border.
Diameter of the bm on this photo is about 12 cm.
Jan
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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