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Baarle Nassau-Hertog - The Europe's most complicated boundary in Baarle

Baarle Nassau-Hertog – The Europe’s most complicated boundary in Baarle

  A town whose territory is divided into a patchwork of Belgian and Dutch territories. The Belgian parts of the town are called Baarle-Hertog and the Dutch elements are called Baarle-Nassau. The Belgian part includes 16 exclaves within Dutch territory. The exclaves, in turn, surround seven Dutch areas. Belgian territory also surrounds an eighth Dutch area near Ginhoven. Cafe in Baarle-Nassau,…

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An Eye For An Eye Will Only Make The Whole World Blind – Part Nine

An Eye For An Eye Will Only Make The Whole World Blind – Part Nine

Baarle-Hertog

If you want to look at the wackiest border configuration of all time, then you need not go any further than the Belgian town of Baarle-Hertog in the province of Brabant, just north-west of Antwerp. Or is it the Dutch town of Baarle-Nassau? It’s all a bit of a mess.

The Belgian town consists of twenty-four non-contiguous parcels of land, 21 of which are completely surrounded by…

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This Is the World’s Most Complex Border Situation Welcome to one of the strangest and most complex border situations in the world. These are the intertwined villages of Baarle-Hertog, which is in Belgium and Baarle-Nassau, which is Dutch.

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The tiny peninsula of Point Roberts, Washington State

I am a lover of the odd and unusual, especially the absurd. Thankfully, politicians and regional pride create endless oddities as political bodies and their leaders draw arbitrary lines in the sand in order to separate ‘us’ from ‘them.’ These can be found throughout the globe, from the bizarre Finland/Sweden argument over a misplaced lighthouse and its equally bizarre resolution, to inconsistent use of daylight savings time (see Arizona), to national enclaves such as Spanish Melilla and Ceuta or British Gibraltar. When you start to look, you realize they are everywhere.

The greater Baarle-Nassau region (Belgian Baarle-Hertog is in pink)

Very near where I’m from, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America, there is a small portion of a peninsula, called Point Roberts, that ridiculously belongs to the United States because of a strict adherence to the original latitudinal arrangement. Being sparsely populated, the high school students who live here, must travel through Canada in order to attend school.

  Perhaps the strangest I’ve ever seen, however, are the interlocking municipalities of Baarle-Hertog, Belgium and Baarle-Nassau, Netherlands based on “complex medieval treaties, agreements, land-swaps, and sales between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant.” “In total it consists of 24 separate parcels of land. The main division of Baarle-Hertog is Zondereigen (after its main hamlet) located north of the Belgian town of Merksplas. In addition there are twenty Belgian exclaves in the Netherlands and three other sections on the Dutch-Belgian border. There are also seven Dutch exclaves within the Belgian exclaves. Six of them are located in the largest one and a seventh in the second-largest one. An eighth Dutch exclave is located nearby Ginhoven: (Wikipedia).

Downtown Baarle-Hertog

Due to all this gerrymandering, within the Netherlands is a landlocked portion of Belgium within which are landlocked portions of the Netherlands. Sometimes, these borders simply encircle one small plot of land. Sometimes, homes and businesses are split in two with one part of the building in one country and one part in another.

Prior to the normalization of regulations between member countries of the European Union, shops and taverns would have different opening and closing times forcing customers to slide down to the other end of the bar when the side in one country closed. Being two separate countries, of course, they use different address systems, so beside the house number of each home is a small flag to indicate whether the home is in Belgium or the Netherlands.

Throughout the city are various legal demarcations that indicate the innumerable international borders that traverse it. Within roadways, flat-topped aluminum plugs show the border, while sidewalks and plazas use crosses for the border and on each side an NL for Netherlands and B for Belgium (See below).

Truth be told, the town is quite small. Though it’s interesting, once the streets have been walked and the borders discovered, there is not much else to do. I would recommend a walkabout with lunch, then continue on to your next destination. Aside from the paint on the sidewalk, it’s just another little village.

Baarle-Hertog-Nassau I am a lover of the odd and unusual, especially the absurd. Thankfully, politicians and regional pride create endless oddities as political bodies and their leaders draw arbitrary lines in the sand in order to separate 'us' from 'them.' These can be found throughout the globe, from the…

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We share this lovely border in the south of the Netherlands with Belgium. The dutch town is called Baarle-Nassau, while the Belgian part is called Baarle-Hertog. Baarle-Hertog came to be because of a lot of complex medieval treaties and agreements between the lords of Breda and of Brabant.

Nowadays it’s very popular with dutch people who want to buy belgian firework (its cheaper and their laws are less strict). It’s also popular with dutch youths who aren’t eighteen yet, but still want to drink alcohol (belgian minimum age is sixteen).

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The Village and The Village

The strange perimeter originates from 1198, the result of a series of diplomatic land swaps between the Lord of Breda and the Duke of Brabant. Quite a normal situation throughout Europe in feudal times. Elsewhere in Europe these parcels were consolidated over the years and borders rationalised, a process that Baarle somehow avoided. When the present border between the Netherlands and Belgium was drawn up in the Treaty of Maastricht (the 1843 one, not the 1992 remake) the issue of Baarle's complex border was put aside. A few maps of the area were attached to the treaty for reference, but in the meantime "%E2%80%9CThe status quo shall be maintained both with regard to the villages of Baarle-Nassau (Netherlands) and Baerle-Duc (Belgium) and with regard to the ways crossing them%E2%80%9D." Working out the details would be come later.

http://www.iamdanw.com/wrote/what-are-borders-anyway/