Hi,
thank you for the information,
regards, chris
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From: <lnadybal@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Border AU-DE Müselbach (Mueselbach)
> Greetings,
>
> I drove through this area in the late 1980s to see what it was all
> about, back when I lived in Germany. It is not a pene-exclave, just
> a quirk in the "verlauf" of the border. There are Austrian maps that
> show a road from Austria through the neck - but it is nothing more
> than a wide tractor path. Autos must actually cross into German
> territory to get to the northern section of this place, but there are
> only signs on the roads letting you know that you have changed from
> one country to another. The area is not an Austrian
> Zollauschussgebiet (customs excluded zone) like Jungholz or the
> Kleinwalsertal.
>
>
> My understanding (from having talked to people who work in the area -
> as at a gas station and post office) is that the border only runs the
> way it does because of old property rights. During WWII (at the
> Anscluss of Austria with Germany) and again at the end of WWII (when
> the Americans occupied both the German and Austrian sides of the
> border) the border could have been changed. But, there would have
> been no consequence to it given what little is there and the mental
> closeness of the two countries. There were more important issues back
> then.
>
> There are all sorts of roads that cross the border in this Alpine area
> (such as the Rossfeldstr. above Berchtesgaden) where movement free of
> immigration and customs controls but inside of the Zollgrenzgebiet
> between the two countries has been made exceptionally convenient for
> the local citizenry. These relations would be a good textbook case
> for the CIS states and the former states of the Soviet Union to
> practice concerning their exclaves and odd border areas.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Len Nadybal
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Schulz" <wertkauf@g...>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just found this nearly pene-enclave between Austria and Germany,
> close to
> > Lindau / Lake Constance. does anyone know the story?
> >
> > map 1 is from the "bayern-viewer" http://212.34.74.183/bayernviewer/, a
> > bavarian online map,
> > map 2 is from "austria online" http://www.austrianmap.at/ click on START
> >
> > bye, chris
>
>
>
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