Neutral-Moresnet
1816 - 1919
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Border marker 193 Now the Three-country-point of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In those days this was a Four-country-point. |
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In the recently applied new pavement around border marker 193 the segments
of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany are clearly visible. In the foreground the symbolic former borders of Neutral Moresnet are visible. |
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View from the Boudewijntower to the south. The coloured part of the picture shows the former neutral territory. |
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This sign, near the parking lot (Belgian side) of the Three-country-point near Vaals, stands at the beginning of a footpath which is leading along a great number of the still present bordermarkers of Neutral Moresnet. |
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Footpath along the former eastern border (view to the south). |
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One of the 60 border markers. There are still more than 50 of them. |
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Not all the border markers are still well anchored. |
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A border marker in the bushes, almost invisible because it is so green. |
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In front of the white Fiat border marker LX on the southeastern point of the border. The left side of the road was, from the marker to the back, the border. Left Prussian Moresnet and right Neutral Moresnet. |
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Close up of border marker LX. |
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The Göhltal museum in the Maxstreet. The Vieille Montagne owned this building and members of the board lived in it. |
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In 1848 the Vieille Montage bought this house, the “Jansmühle” to provide accommodation for personnel. Dr. Molly lived in this house for a long time. |
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This building used to be the office of the board of the zinc min Vieille Montage. |
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The casino pond, a neutral idyll. |
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The bridge over the Geul in Kelmis. Here stood once a joint customs office of Prussia and the Netherlands. This was the only official border crossing to Neutral Moresnet. |
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Border marker nr. 1 at the most southwestern point of the neutral territory. |
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The northwestern border is marked by the markers I to XXX. This is marker XXX and can be found next to the present Three-country-point along the road to Gemmenich. |
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Back in Holland nothing but the name of this road reminds the fact that once four borders met here. |