Basel is scince a long time on my list but I never started searching boundermarks there. Such a nice city and so close to the border!
About once a year I pass Basel for my work. It's my wish to find all bordermarkers of Switzerland, there must be thousands on the most difficult spots. I will never do that because of lack of time -and money. And even whan I had the time, my life would be too short to find them all.
But why not just make a start?
I made that start in June 2013 when I had to visit Bern for my work. I could spend a free afternoon in Basel. I started at bordermark 5, close to the bordercrossing Otterbach. That's also near to the station where my train stopped. I walked from the station to Otterbach in almost 30 minutes.
The trip started with a dissapointment: BM 5 and BM 6 were unfindable. Also the BMs 8 and 10 I couldn't locate. Anyway, I made the start! I finished this trip in the late afternoon in Riehen.
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Borderstone 5 The map is clear about the position of this BM: on the corner of the wall and the small road under the railway line. But what a pity, no stone available! However, the border is clearly inidcated by painted marks.
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Grenssteen 6 Here also bad luck. The BM should be located behind the border buildings, somewhere near the acres. Instead of that a picture of the markers on the road near bordercrossing Otterbach.
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Grenssteen 7 At last bingo! Hidden between some poor percelen met volkstuintjes. An owner of a XXX was so kind to help me to lead me to the borderstone. On the backside the year (1908) can be read. On the frontsid it sais LG, I assume that stands for "Lörrach and G??? The number of the stone is not readable, it's to deep in the ground but it's defenitly 7.
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Grenssteen 8 Not findable! Must be on the edge of the acre against this scary prison that stands just in Switzerland. Mayde the stone appears in winter.
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Grenssteen 9 The first stone with a number! Besieds that, it's covered woth the weapon of Basel. The border hooks here 90 degrees, follows the edge of the wood and then goes into the acre..
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Grenssteen 10 Unfortunately not findable. Sould be on the acre, like the next one (11). |
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