Hi,
as i know they claim to be the centre of the
european community, when estonia, poland, czechia, hungary, slowenia and
cyprus become members of the EU.
"Cölbe wird zum geographischen Mittelpunkt, wenn
mit der geplanten Erweiterung Estland, Polen, Tschechien, Ungarn,
Slowenien und Zypern in die EU aufgenommen sind"
I asked the "Institut für theoretische Geodäsie in
Bonn" about that method of measuring, but until now didn t get an
answer.
jan documented the centre of europe close to
Purnuskes (really hard to find, i was there 1993), thats ca 25 km north-west of
vilnius in lithuania:
harry documented the centre of the "old" european
community:
regards, chris
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:10
PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: What is
Cölbe?
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com,
"chris schulz" <23568@g...>
wrote:
> http://www.marburg-biedenkopf.de/wifoe/derweg.htm
The
site claims that after EU extension, the municipality of Cölbe in Marbu=
rg-Biedenkopf county, Hesse state will be the geographical centre of the
EU.=
I have my reservations on "geographical centre" claims. They
don't explain =
how they measured it, because there are several methods.
Centre of gravity o=
f landmasses? Crossing between extreme points?
Islands and overseas territor=
ies included or not?
If they base
their claim on that map of the EU they're certainly wrong, bec=
ause it
omits a couple of countries now known to join in 2004.
Furthermore they
claim "Europe" instead of "EU" which is what their map sho=
ws. Failure to
make that distinction is always a sign of dodgy claims. When =
you use the
mainstream geographical definition of Europe, and a centre of gr=
avity
approach, it's somewhere in Eastern Poland or Ukraine. Westerners ofte=
n
fail to realise just how big a portion of Europe Russia has, and how far w=
est of centre we really are even in Poland or Germany, who claim to be
"Mitt=
eleuropa". Pah.
Regards
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