Belgium - Germany:
the Vennbahn enclaves

Photographs (c) Rolf Palmberg (2001). Click on a picture to increase its size.

Picture 1:
The German railway station of Rötgen.
Picture 2:
Information sign at the railway station.
Picture 3:
A typical section of the Belgian railway track [the Vennbahn] that cuts into German territory five times between the German towns of Rötgen and Monschau, thus creating five German exclaves.
Picture 4:
A section of the Belgian railway track above a road that leads to the German exclave of Mutzenich.
Picture 5:
The "wall" of the Belgian pene-exclave created under the railway track.
Picture 6:
Rückschlag, the smallest of the five German exclaves, comprising this house and the surrounding yard.
Picture 7:
A closer view of the house.

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