Subject: Nagging questions<br/>
Date: Jan 10, 2003 @ 23:18<br/>
Author: Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Ernst Stavro Blofeld &lt;blofeld_es@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1177815129">Peers,<br/>
<br/>
Jan Krogh has brought my attention to some<br/>
irregularites about marker 110 at Sorgschrofen.<br/>
<br/>
To refresh our memories, we have:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://images.enclaves.org/jungholz/110_1.jpg">http://images.enclaves.org/jungholz/110_1.jpg</a><br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://images.enclaves.org/jungholz/110_2.jpg">http://images.enclaves.org/jungholz/110_2.jpg</a><br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://images.enclaves.org/jungholz/110_3.jpg">http://images.enclaves.org/jungholz/110_3.jpg</a><br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://images.enclaves.org/jungholz/110_4.jpg">http://images.enclaves.org/jungholz/110_4.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
First, Jan asks, what does the bolt set into the rock<br/>
mean? Is that perhaps the actual quadripoint, and not<br/>
the painted cross? One could imagine, I suppose, that<br/>
the first mark in the stone was made through the bolt<br/>
by strong mountain men, and that the artists arrived<br/>
later with their paintbox. Is the large white area,<br/>
with it&#39;s black cross, located where it is simply<br/>
because there&#39;s a surface large and flat enough to<br/>
engrave into and paint on?<br/>
<br/>
Jan also points to the strange fact that there are two<br/>
white fields. Surely the large white field is big<br/>
enough to put an extra initial in, so why bother to<br/>
paint an extra smaller one? Especially since the<br/>
smaller field seems to be painted on an extremely<br/>
paint-unfriendly area of the rock.<br/>
<br/>
And then, the text of the treat cleary states that the<br/>
highest peak of the mountain is the critical point.<br/>
Then, would that place the quadripoint on top of the<br/>
rock? I don&#39;t recall seeing antyhing irregular on the<br/>
top of the rock, but I didn&#39;t look all that carefully,<br/>
and unfortunately the images don&#39;t reveal anything.<br/>
<br/>
So where is the point? And, indeed, what is the point,<br/>
one might wonder... :)<br/>
<br/>
While on the spot I also made the following<br/>
observation: On regular boundary stones, poles etc the<br/>
initials or coats of arms of the kingdoms, republics,<br/>
peoples republics or fiefdoms etc usually face the way<br/>
of their owner. <br/>
<br/>
Om marker 110 the little white field with the O<br/>
(actually O-umlaut) for Austria is correctly<br/>
positioned facing &quot;mainland&quot; Austria, and is, as far<br/>
as I can tell, painted on Austrian soil (or rock :).<br/>
The D for Germany, however, is also painted on<br/>
Austrian soil, namely in Jungholz. German land<br/>
protrudes like two narrow triangular shaped areas from<br/>
the ground up and the top of the stone and meet in the<br/>
cross (or bolt).<br/>
<br/>
Why would the surveyours do what could look as<br/>
questionable work on this important spot, while the<br/>
rest of the border is so neatly marked with<br/>
nice-looking, well maintained and correctly positioned<br/>
stones?<br/>
<br/>
Must we, however painful that might be, accept the<br/>
fact that most people would actually come for the<br/>
view?<br/>
<br/>
M<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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