Wallonie

Verviers

Baelen

Old border Belgium/Germany

Wallonie

Old border Belgium/Germany

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Old border Belgium/Germany

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Parc naturel des Hautes-Fagnes – Eifel

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Location: Baelen, Verviers, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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January 16, 2022

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It's a pity that so far (as of 11/21) no one has been found responsible for putting this beautiful boundary stone back up. So it lies like "unloaded rubble" on the side of the road.
addendum v. 04/30/2023: The boundary stone was erected again. An information board provides information about the Hill as a former state border.

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

April 29, 2023

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Boundary stone Prussia Belgium No. 158 in Eupen (Belgium):
Built from 1837 by the Kingdom of Prussia. It is located exactly on the border of the former Prussian territory "Kreis Eupen" (now the municipality of Eupen) and the municipality of Baelen. This stone is the first after leaving the border in the middle of River Hill. With the Versailles Treaty of 1920, the border line lost its raison d'être. The stones with the numbers 158 to 193 have two different shapes:
Square with a height of 80 cm;
Octagonal with a height of 125 cm.
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Belgisch-Preu%C3%9Fischer_Grenzstein_Nr._158

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

April 30, 2023

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Originally (from 1840) this boundary was marked with oak posts. These were painted black and white on the Prussian side and orange and white on the Dutch side. In the …

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