Historic Borderstone Netherlands - Germany Oldenkotte - Public Land Survey Marks on Waymarking.com

Het betreft een grenssteen uit 1766 gemaakt van Bentheimer zandsteen die dienst heeft gedaan als grensmarkering tussen Münster en Gelre. Aan de Nederlandse zijde staat het wapen van Gelre, aan de Duitse zijde het wapen van Münster.

In 1655 kwam een relatief einde aan de grenskwesties tussen Münsterland en Gelre nadat landmeters tientallen kaarten hadden gemaakt van de grens. Er werd in dat jaar een verdrag getekend. Het duurt vervolgens nog een eeuw voordat het grensgeschil definitief bijgelegd wordt.

Tijdens een conferentie in Burlo werd op 19 oktober 1765 de grens definitief vastgesteld tussen Aalten, Dinxperlo en Winterswijk enerzijds en Münster anderzijds. In het jaar 1766 werden tussen Gelre en Münster 186 stenen grenspalen geplaatst.

De grenssteen bepaalde in de periode erna de grens tussen Nederland en de staat Pruissen en tegenwoordig tussen Nederland en Duitsland.


It is a boundary stone from 1766 made of Bentheim Sandstone which served as a boundary marker between Munster and Gelre. On the Dutch side is the arms of Gelderland, on the German side the arms of Münster.

The border issues between Münsterland and Gelre were relatively close to an agreement in 1655 after border surveyors created dozens of maps. A treaty was signed in that year. It yet took another century before the border dispute finally got settled.

During a conference in Burlo held on October 19, 1765 the border definitively established between Aalten, Dinxperlo and Winterswijk and Münster. In the year 1766 were 186 stone border markers placed between Gelderland and Münster.

in the following period the boundary stone formed the border between the Netherlands and the State of Prussia and today between the Netherlands and Germany.

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Type of survey mark: borderstone What indicators are near the mark to help people identify where it is located?: you can find the borderstone at the right side of the hikingpath. What property is this mark defining?: border between Germany and the Netherlands

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