Hallo. Würde der Fluss nicht eine logischere Wahl treffen? Gehörte dieses fingerförmige Bereich einem Feudal, der später der Konföderation Treue schwor?
Und wie ist das Leben dort? Gibt es eine Einigung oder so? Und angesichts der Tatsache, dass dies Basel-Land-Schmale ist, sprechen die Menschen in diesem Teil Deutsch oder Französisch?
Danke
https://i.redd.it/v78oed36n4kf1.png
Von ihatebeinganonymous
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Because, whatever…
If you look at it on a better map instead of being lazy, you would see that there’s not a single building there…
It‘s a piece of wood. The deer there speak Dutch for some reason.
Some guy probably gave it to the Bishopric of Basel in exchange for a few years less in purgatory. This is a humorous guess of course.
Go search for *Benkenspitz* and you will find a lot of ressources.
This is the Benkenspitz. Clear reasons for why the border runs like this, are not known.
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkenspitz](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkenspitz)
It’s a result of Switzerland’s municipal history and forest land ownership. Over time the surrounding areas became French and this forest parcel of land remained in the ownership of the Biel-Benken municipality.
The area was sold to Basel in the 1500s so this solidified its association with Basel and Switzerland. It’s been this way for over 400 years now according to earliest maps.
People speak German in this area though nobody lives near “benkenspitz”. It’s just a border crossing these days.
When Napoleon fell, these old frontiers were surveyed again and reaffirmed to restore peace and stability.
Wait until they learn about German [Büsingen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein) completely surrounded by Switzerland 😉
Interesting, I’ve never heard of this before
Topography – probably
That‘s about the most unhelpful picture to understand the situation, try https://map.geo.admin.ch/#/map?lang=en¢er=2605712.99,1263705.39&z=5.801&topic=ech&layers=ch.swisstopo.zeitreihen@year=1864,f;ch.bfs.gebaeude_wohnungs_register,f;ch.bav.haltestellen-oev,f;ch.swisstopo.swisstlm3d-wanderwege,f;ch.vbs.schiessanzeigen,f;ch.astra.wanderland-sperrungen_umleitungen,f&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe instead.