I sent Jesper's question to Markus Moses, my relative
who handles the PC network at the Ravensburg Toy Company
in Bavaria, north of Lake Constance (Bodensee).
Here is his reply:
-----Original Message-----
From: Moses, Markus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001
To: 'Cohen, Izzy'
Subject: AW: Lake Constance
Yes, this is a funny thing. In some (German) maps are no borderlines
in the lake (condominium). In some maps there are borderlines: in the
middle of the lake between Germany and Switzerland, and a small part
is Austrian.
Austria wants a condominium because, then they can "use" the whole lake,
but in the case of "borderlines" they will have only a small part of the
lake.
The people living around the lake have no problems with that, it's one
big "family". Also the "coast guard" of the three countries even had no
trouble because of this border-line-problem. They manage it together.
Austria is like Germany in the European Community. In a few months we
have the same money. Only Switzerland is "exotic".
In this map you can see the (red) borderlines, but the lake has none.
http://www.bodensee.de/pages/karte.html
Here you can see a border line in the west part of the lake, between
Germany and Switzerland
http://www.lv-bw.de/LVShop2/ProduktInfo/wir-ueber-uns/Bodensee/bodensee.htm
[I was not able to access this URL. If you also have a problem, truncate
the URL after http://www.lv-bw.de and click on internal links. /s/ izzy]
So there is nothing exact, but when there is no problem, there is no problem
to solve.
bye
Markus
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Cohen, Izzy [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 2. August 2001
> An: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: Lake Constance
>
> Markus --
>
> Do you have any thoughts about this topic?
>
> Israel Cohen
> [log in to unmask]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Lake Constance
>
> Dear fellow border interested people
>
> I am looking for information on the borders of Lake Constance.
> It is a fact that the three countries bordering the lake
> (Germany, Switzerland and Austria) cannot agree on the border
> lines. Switzerland wants fixed border lines, Austria a
> condominium and Germany don't really care.
>
> But is the entire lake disputed? Or how far from the shore
> of the lake do the countries territories' extend?
> Thanks for any answer.
>
> Jesper
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