{"id":319,"date":"2008-09-16T17:46:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T22:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2021-11-01T06:26:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T11:26:37","slug":"baarle-hertog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/baarle-hertog\/","title":{"rendered":"Baarle-Hertog Quadripoint Boundary Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love getting comments from readers. Recently I received an email about a quote from my recent <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=304\">Jungholz Quadripoint Boundary Cross<\/a> posting. As a reminder, a quadripoint occurs when four borders meet at a single point, and example being the &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/?p=1406\">Four Corners<\/a>&#8221; of the United States where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado join together. I wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;In fact, there are no places where four nations form a quadripoint. Even the Jungholz example involving four borders and two nations is rare, one of only three examples.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So my reader wanted to know whether I could provide the other two examples of quadripoints formed by international boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Baarle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One involves Baarle-Hertog of Belgium and its intertwining with Baarle-Nassau of the Netherlands. But I&#8217;ll save the other example for a future post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m10!1m8!1m3!1d39788.7510067536!2d4.934235000000001!3d51.44352299999999!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1578184718752!5m2!1sen!2sus\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This border area is almost indescribable. It includes a multitude of exclaves, mainly Belgian exclaves totally surrounded by the Netherlands. However a few also exist in the opposite direction. So this means seven Dutch exclaves sit totally within the Belgian exclaves!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now take a look at the map; zoom in and out, and switch between modes. Then you&#8217;ll notice that some of the parcels enclose a single field or a couple of blocks or houses within the town. You&#8217;ll also see that indeed this features several quadripoints sprinkled within those convoluted boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/netherlands-tourism\/16479472309\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8640\/16479472309_efd9881b64_b.jpg\" alt=\"Baarle-Nassau. Photo by Jan M.; (CC BY 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An interesting website documents much of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ontology.buffalo.edu\/smith\/baarle.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baarle-Nassau\/Baarle-Hertog<\/a> phenomenon. It includes some excellent maps, a photo and some history behind how this situation arose a thousand years ago. Somehow &#8211;very improbably &#8212; it survives to the present, making it through several missed opportunities that could have fixed the situation. 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