Common German-Luxembourg territory
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Common German-Luxembourg territory |
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 Border sign on a bridge over the Sauer near Echternach |
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| Type of regional unit: non-parish area |
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| Location: |
The border between Germany and Luxembourg is formed by the Our - Sauer - Mosel river system |
| Coordinates: |
49 ° 42 ′ 48 ″ N , 6 ° 30 ′ 24 ″ E (mouth of the Sauer → Mosel)
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| State: | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District: | not belonging to district |
| AGS : | 07 0 00 999 |
| Regional key : | 07 0 00 9999 999 |
| NUTS code: | DEC |
| District key : | see table (47 markings) |
| surface | approx. 620 ha |
| Land area | 4 ha |
| population | uninhabited |
| length | 118 km |
| width | 10-120 m |
| Height (max) | 315 m (border triangle) |
| height | 177 m (mouth Our → Sauer) |
| Height (min) | 130 m (mouth of the Sauer → Moselle) |
| Structure: | 47 registrations |
| Situation map (with Saarland-Luxembourg part) |
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The common German-Luxembourg sovereign territory is formed by the rivers Mosel , Sauer and Our on the border between Luxembourg and Germany (with the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland ). The area is the only municipality-free area in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.
geography
The 135 km long border between Germany and Luxembourg follows the Our-Sauer-Mosel river system over almost its entire length (127.979 km). Only in the area of Vianden an der Our does Luxembourg extend over a length of around 7 km to the east of the river system. 10 km are on the Saarland-Luxembourg border. The remaining 118 km form the municipality-free area of Rhineland-Palatinate. This length is achieved by the numerous bends in the river , because the distance as the crow flies is only 67 km. At Vianden the otherwise contiguous area is interrupted.
The northern 50 km are formed by the Our. The northernmost point is the border triangle Belgium-Germany-Luxembourg, in the immediate vicinity of which is the European monument .
The border section formed by the Sauer to the south is somewhat shorter at 42 km. The southern section, about 36 km long, is formed by the Moselle; the Rhineland-Palatinate part is 26.42 km long and lies between the river kilometers 205.870 and 232.290.
With an area of the (river) area of 6.21 km², an average river width of almost 50 m is calculated.
At the border triangle of Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany, the Our is 10 m wide. At the confluence of the Sauer, the border river widens to 30 m. At the confluence of the Sauer and the Moselle, there is a jump from 50 to 110 m, and the width of the Moselle to the Saarland border is between 110 and 120 m.
In the Metzdorf-Mompach district (west of the municipality of Langsur) there is a small river island in the Sauer.
The bridge structures are subject to the joint maintenance of both countries. The largest bridge is the Sauertalbrücke ( A64 / E44 ). At Langsur there is a railway bridge over the Sauer, just before it flows into the Moselle. There are also 21 road bridges and 7 pedestrian bridges.
Adjacent to the area of the condominium is the port of Mertert. Although located on Luxembourg territory, the German water police is responsible there. The Moselle locks Grevenmacher and Stadtbredimus are explicitly excluded from the condominium.
The northern part of the area up to the mouth of the Sauer belongs to the German-Luxembourgish Nature Park .
Coordinates
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
- Belgium-Germany-Luxembourg tri-border region: 50 ° 7 ′ 49 ″ N , 6 ° 8 ′ 9 ″ E
- Our → Sauer mouth: 49 ° 52 ′ 30 ″ N , 6 ° 17 ′ 12 ″ E
- Estuary Sauer → Moselle: 49 ° 42 ′ 48 ″ N , 6 ° 30 ′ 24 ″ E
- Border triangle Rhineland-Palatinate - Saarland - Luxembourg:
history
The condominium goes back to the wording of the Vienna Congress Act of June 9, 1815
«Les rivières elles-mêmes, en tant qu'elles forment la frontière, appartiendront en commun aux Puissances limitrophes. »
"The rivers themselves belong to the adjacent powers together, as far as they form the border."
and the border treaties of June 26, 1816 and October 7, 1816 between the Netherlands and Prussia .
The different interpretation of the stipulation made there that the border waters “should belong to both states jointly” led to differences between the neighboring states and to different court decisions. Negotiations to clarify the situation began in 1925; a draft treaty presented by the German side in 1938, which defined the border in the middle of the water, was not pursued further because of the German occupation of Luxembourg in 1940 during the Second World War .
With the congestion regulation of the Moselle to the Großschifffahrtsstrasse 1958 to 1964, the clarification of the situation gained again urgency. The negotiations on the border regulation between Luxembourg and Germany, which were initiated in 1979, were concluded in 1984 with the conclusion of the German-Luxembourg border treaty of December 19, 1984, with which detailed issues of the border were regulated.
administration
In the German official statistics , the condominium has been recorded as a community-free area of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate with an area of 6.20 or 6.21 km² since May 1, 2004 , with the official community code 07 0 00 999 and with the NUTS -3 code DEZZZ . In contrast to the other unincorporated areas, the area is not assigned to any district or administrative district , but touches the two districts of Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm and Trier-Saarburg of the former government district of Trier . From the German point of view, unlike Lake Constance , it is included in the area statistics of the state (Rhineland-Palatinate) and Germany.
While the state borders aligned with navigable rivers mostly run along the valley path of the rivers, in this case the sovereign territories that can only be assigned to one national territory begin on the respective bank. Contrary to this regulation, according to information from the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate, the river sections to the right of the Moselle valley path were assigned to the individual neighboring communities until December 31, 1995. As of December 31, 1996, they were recorded separately for the first time in the official area statistics.
The approximately ten kilometer long section on which the Moselle forms the border between Saarland and Luxembourg has the key number 10942115 and covers an area of 103 hectares (mostly water, one hectare "traffic area", less than half a hectare "building and open space "as well as the same order of magnitude forest area). The land area of this area is a. on the northern part of the nameless Moselle island near the Apach lock , the larger, southern part of which belongs to France (municipality of Apach). This Saarland part of the condominium borders the municipalities of Perl (Saarland) and Schengen (Luxembourg). The key number was based on 10042115 for the neighboring municipality of Perl (115) in the Merzig-Wadern district (42) . The number 9 in third place distinguishes the area from all districts and municipalities in Saarland, which have a 0 there.
structure
According to the district register of Rhineland-Palatinate, the area is divided into 47 districts (river sections), which are named after the adjacent pairs of municipalities on the respective side of the state border, including the one up to the municipal area reform in Rhineland-Palatinate (June 7, 1969 to March 16 1974) existing municipalities. The demarcations are listed from north to south in the table:
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Gemarkungs - key |
District | Area km² |
Adjacent local church |
Adjacent district |
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| 073195 | Sevenig-Heinerscheid | 0.05 | Sevenig | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073194 | Dahnen-Heinerscheid | 0.03 | Dahnen | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073193 | Dasburg-Heinerscheid | 0.32 | The castle | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073192 | Dasburg-Munshausen | The castle | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm | |
| 073191 | Dasburg-Hosingen | The castle | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm | |
| 073190 | Price oath-Hosingen | 0.21 | Price oath | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073128 | Affler-Hosingen | 0.05 | Affler | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073127 | Überisenbach-Hosingen | 0.06 | Überisenbach | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073126 | Gemünd-Hosingen | 0.08 | Gemünd | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073125 | Keppeshausen-Hosingen | 0.08 | Keppeshausen | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073124 | Keppeshausen-Putscheid | Keppeshausen | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm | |
| 073123 | Waldhof-Falkenstein-Putscheid | 0.05 | Waldhof-Falkenstein | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073122 | Roth-Vianden | 0.08 | Roth an der Our | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073121 | Roth-Fouhren | Roth an der Our | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm | |
| 073120 | Gentingen-Fouhren | 0.74 | Gentingen | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073119 | Gentingen-Reisdorf | Gentingen | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm | |
| 073118 | Ammeldingen-Reisdorf | 0.23 | Ammeldingen | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073060 | Wallendorf-Reisdorf | 0.21 | Wallendorf | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073059 | Wallendorf-Beaufort | Wallendorf | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm | |
| 073058 | Bollendorf-Beaufort | 0.08 | Bollendorf | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073057 | Bollendorf-Berdorf | Bollendorf | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm | |
| 073056 | Bollendorf-Echternach | Bollendorf | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm | |
| 073055 | Echternacherbrück-Echternach | 0.05 | Echternacherbrück | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 073054 | Echternacherbrück-Rosport | Echternacherbrück | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm | |
| 073046 | Minden-Rosport | 0.03 | Minden | Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm |
| 072826 | Edingen-Rosport | 0.50 | Ralingen | Trier-Saarburg |
| 072825 | Godendorf-Rosport | Ralingen | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072824 | Ralingen-Rosport | Ralingen | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072823 | Wintersdorf-Rosport | Ralingen | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072822 | Wintersdorf-Mompach | Ralingen | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072821 | Metzdorf-Mompach | 0.59 | Langsur | Trier-Saarburg |
| 072820 | Mesenich-Mompach | Langsur | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072819 | Mesenich-Mertert | Langsur | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072818 | Langsur-Mertert | Langsur | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072777 | Oberbillig-Mertert | 0.27 | Top cheap | Trier-Saarburg |
| 072778 | Temmels-Mertert | 0.92 | Temmels | Trier-Saarburg |
| 072779 | Temmels-Grevenmacher | Temmels | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072780 | Wave Grevenmacher | 0.63 | waves | Trier-Saarburg |
| 072781 | Wave wormeldange | waves | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072782 | Nittel-Wormeldange | 0.25 | Nittel | Trier-Saarburg |
| 072783 | Rehlingen-Wormeldange | Nittel | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072743 | Wincheringen-Wormeldange | 0.38 | Wincheringen | Trier-Saarburg |
| 072744 | Wehr-Wormeldange | 0.32 | Palzem | Trier-Saarburg |
| 072745 | Wehr-Stadtbredimus | Palzem | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072746 | Palzem-Stadtbredimus | Palzem | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072747 | Palzem-Remich | Palzem | Trier-Saarburg | |
| 072748 | Kreuzweiler-Remich | Palzem | Trier-Saarburg | |
| Total area | 6.21 |
| District key |
District | Area km² |
Adjacent community |
Adjacent district |
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| Nennig-Remich | Pearl | Merzig-Wadern | ||
| Nennig-Wellenstein | ||||
| Besch-Wellenstein | ||||
| Besch-Remerschen | ||||
| Perl-Remerschen |
In the area of the Wallendorf-Reisdorf district, the Our flows into the Sauer, which forms the border from there. The Sauer flows into the Moselle on the border of the communities Langsur and Oberbillig.
Between the German municipalities of Waldhof-Falkenstein and Roth, the area is interrupted by the only cross-river municipality of Vianden in Luxembourg .
literature
- Daniel-Erasmus Khan: The German state borders. Jus Publicum 114, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148403-7 , ISSN 0941-0503 , Chapter IX: The German-Luxembourg state border. Pp. 474-511 (in Google Books ).
- Grand-Duche de Luxembourg (Administration du Cadastre), Land Rhineland-Palatinate (Upper Cadastral Authority) (Ed.): Border surveying Germany-Luxembourg. The emergence of the border in the years 1815/16 as well as its measurement and documentation in the years 1980–1984. Ministère des Finances du Luxembourg and Ministry of the Interior and Sport of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Luxemburg / Mainz 1984.
Web links
- Federal Office for Geodesy and Cartography: GeoBasis-DE, administrative areas 1: 250 000, Annex E German-Luxembourg sovereign territory
- Three-country corner of Europe
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Destatis): Official territorial status. Regional delimitations for Germany 2016 , published on 12/09/2017. Section 2.1.3 (page 6) Official territorial status Regional boundaries for Germany
- ^ Daniel-Erasmus Khan: The German state borders. Jus Publicum 114, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148403-7 , ISSN 0941-0503 , Chapter IX: The German-Luxembourg State Border , pp. 474-511 (in Google Books )
- ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento from August 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The Vienna Congreßacte. In: Philipp Anton Guido von Meyer: State Acts for History and Public Law of the German Confederation: 1. Ferdinand Boselli, Frankfurt a. M 1833, p. 173 ( Google book preview ).
- ^ Daniel-Erasmus Khan: The German-Luxembourg border. In: The German State Borders - Legal-Historical Basics and Open Legal Issues. Mohr Siebeck Verlag | Mohr Siebeck, 2004, ISBN 978-3-16-148403-2 , p. 474ff. ( Preview on Google Books ).
- ↑ Bundestag printed paper 11/477 (PDF; 516 kB)
- ^ Federal Statistical Office: Statistical Yearbook 2006 - For the Federal Republic of Germany. Wiesbaden 2006, p. 36.
- ^ Online database of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Statistical Office ( Memento from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Saarland Statistical Office: Area Survey 2008 - Actual use according to cadastral information (PDF; 149 kB)
- ↑ a b Register of districts of Rhineland-Palatinate