Hello
Wolfi,
Why do
you think the border here moved after WW1? Of cource it moved north of the
Nemunas (germ. Memel) river, but not here (see encl. German map from 1917)
according to my knowlegde. Elderly Lithuanian people in Vistytis still remembers
"angry Germans who were shooting with rifles against the Lithuanians hunting on
German side of the lake".
I was
astonished by the several nice German style houses in Vistytis. Before WWII
many inhabitants there were German.
Some corrections:
1920 - 1940:
Germany/Lithuania
1940 - 1945: Germany/Soviet Russian occupation
1945
- 1990: (USSR occupation)
1990 - 1991: USSR /
Lithuania
1991 - today: Russia/Lithuania
Best
regards,
Jan
Hi
Jan,
in any case it seems unlikely that you'ld find a 19th border
marker
near the current border, since it moved after WW1 (Treaty of
Versailles), so it's not in the same place now than it was then.
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/karten/versailles/
Incidentally
that's the only time the location of the border changed
in the last couple
of centuries, but frequently the countries
separated by it
changed:
I-don't-know-when until 1871: Prussia/Russia,
1871 - 1920:
Germany/Russia
* 1920 border moved according to
Versailles
1920 - 1940: Germany/Lithuania
1940 - 1945:
Germany/Soviet Union
1945 - 1991: Inner-Soviet Republic boundary
1991 -
today: Russia/Lithuania
Regards
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