Can anyone tell me if the Slovak-Czech border has been 'rectified'?
Topographic maps show it following the original course of the March river,
which leaves the border following old oxbows and meander loops.
Current tourist maps (hardly a reliable source admittedly!) show it
following the new straightened river.
Has there been an agreement on this, or is the tourist map wrong?
Scans of the maps below are available on request
A colleague asked me:
1- my touristic map of Hohenau/March,
scale 1:10.000 indicates the proper con-
fluence of rivers March/Morava and
Thaya/Dyje as the actual tripoint (tp) - whilst
2- my Austrian topomap 1:25.000 indicates
that the tp is at the point where the old
March riverbed meets the Thaya...!
My topomap clearly shows the remains
of the old March riverbed forming the
border between Sk and Cz - at the whole
length of the river...!
Both maps are quite up-to-date: the touristic
map dates 2000, while the topomap is based
on the Slovakian 1:25k dating 1988-1993 and
the Czech equivalent dating back 1992-94!
I actually phoned the mayor's office in Hohenau
where they confirmed their own touristic map,
wondering how I could possibly doubt their new
map... well:
my theory: I'm quite sure that previously this
boundary line had a purely administrative charac-
ter between the two parts of Czechoslovakia..
anyhow, when they divorced in '92, they must
have reached some kind of agreement, letting
the actual riverbed of the March/Morava forming
the boundary line (otherwise they'd end up with
some parts of their national territory unaccess-
ible from the mainland ...!)
can anyone confirm this theory...?!?
Brendan Whyte
Melbourne, Australia
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