Not much info on this, the third (*) of former West Berlin’s ten tiny enclaves within former East Germany. This website on Berlin exclaves merely mentions that Laßzinswiesen “was an exclave just north of Laßzinssee, only tens of meters from West-Berlin but completely unaccessible from the West.” As is shown on this Soviet map. The text inside the exclave contains the words ‘perechod’ (‘access’) and ‘granitsa’ (‘border’), but that’s where my acquaintance with Russian ends. Any help with the translation would be very welcome.
Other sources list Lasszinswiesen as having an area of 13,49 hectares, making it the third largest of West Berlin’s exclaves. For a complete list of the exclaves and their sizes, go here. All territorial anomalies between West Berlin and East Germany (except West Berlin – or East Germany – itself) were resolved in three stages of Gebietsaustausch (exchange of territory) in 1971, 1974 and 1988. The Wall fell just a year after the last exchange.
(*): See post #99 for a map and some information on Erlengrund and Fichtewiese, the first two exclaves mentioned on this blog.
The first word says opasnoe (dangerous), second mesto (place), third olya (don’t really know, but sounds to me like oil? :) i’m slovenian btw). So this would make up something like: this is a dangerous place to cross the border (marked with an arrow).
Comment by AzzQim — April 13, 2007 @ 8:25 am
It’s a dangerous place (where) to cross the border.
(opacnoe mecto dlia perexoda granitse)
Comment by Le pendu — April 13, 2007 @ 8:36 am
Omg, totally didn’t see that that letter was a D (didn’t see the little tail on upper side) :)
Comment by AzzQim — April 13, 2007 @ 9:00 am
Bolshaya spassiba, fellas!
Comment by strangemaps — April 13, 2007 @ 9:07 am
Wanted to help to make a translation but was late. But in order to be exact “dlia” is not “to” it is “for”
dangerous place “for” crossing the border.
The rest of the Russian words are name of the street Tzaunkenigshtag street “ulitza” and old refinery ( which is abbreviation in Russian)
Comment by Gene Katzman — April 13, 2007 @ 1:30 pm
This doesn’t fit the posting at all, but I thought it was quite interesting and could not find any other way to get it to you!
“Mud Maps: Artwork of an Aboriginal Australian Woman Inspires Action on Climate Change,” Bronwyn Fredericks, Women & Environments International Magazine, April 11, 2007. Copyright 2007 Micromedia Limited. All Rights Reserved.
[“Dr Pamela Croft is an artist and member of the Kooma clan of the Uralarai people in South West Queensland, Australia. In the interview that follows, she discusses her perspective as an Australian Aboriginal woman and how her land-centred artwork inspires action around climate and other environmental changes.... To many Aboriginal Australians, Country means place of origin in spiritual, cultural and literal terms. It refers to a specific clan or a tribal group or nation of Aboriginal people and encompasses all the knowledge, cultural norms, values, stories and resources within that area. The notion of Country is central to Australian Aboriginal identity and history, and contributes to overall health and wellbeing. Women and men both have a central role within Country, in terms of ownership, care and rights. The increasing shift of Aboriginal people to urban or other areas does not mean that one's connections to Country are lost, or that the significance of Country is no longer present. Instead it means that many Aboriginal Australians now pass through, dwell in, and live within the Country belonging to other Aboriginal Australians. It has been estimated that Aboriginal Australians have lived on the Australian continent for over 100,000 years. As a result we have a long history of relationships connected to Country: Australia's landscapes and seascapes and all the animals and plants and peoples that inhabit them. Dr Pamela Croft names her Country as that of the Kooma clan of the Uralarai people in South West Queensland. She lives in Keppel Sands on the Capricorn Coast in Central Queensland within the Countries of the Darumbal (mainland and coastline) and the Woppaburra (Keppel Islands), areas that are intricately linked through history and relationship to each other. This region is at the southern end of one of the world's greatest wonders and World Heritage Site, the Great Barrier Reef. Throughout broader Australia, the region is marketed as the 'Beef Capital of Australia' and where 'the beef meets the reef.' Croft has practised as a visual artist since the mid-1980s and uses both Aboriginal Australian and Western techniques, education and style to tell stories about identity, sense of place, and the effects of colonization. She was the first Aboriginal Australian to earn a Doctor of Visual Arts.... In her artwork, Dr Croft focuses on concepts of place, space and change within Country. She undertook a recent series of artwork on the muddy banks of the upper regions of Pumpkin Creek at Keppel Sands. Pamela is familiar with how the moon and the sun impact the tidal flows and how the time of year affects the temperature of the water. She has traced the tracks of animals and other people who at times dwell within the area. She has watched, observed, hunted and gathered in ways of Aboriginal women, past, present and future. In the Creek, Pamela used special paper to capture the gentle nomadic nature of the tides, which result in delicate patterns left on the mud that change with each ebb and flow of the water. The crabs imprinted their presence as they foraged for food, so too did the ibis and seagulls. This evidence of water and animals became stories, recorded in the mud like texts that have been imprinted within the artwork. Croft later used the paper as canvases for her artwork and added local ochres - black, brown and red to symbolise the water's connection to land, people, place, and a sense of past, present and future. The colours and Unes flow within the artwork just like the contours of the Creek. They are tied within the artwork to a sense of Country that binds water, land, animals and us as human beings. Over time, the changes in Country became mapped in Croft's ‘Mud Map’ and other artwork. Interview with Dr Pamela Croft...”]
Comment by Mary Scriver — April 13, 2007 @ 2:45 pm
The street name would be something like “Zaunkönigsteig”. Not sure about the first syllable. It shouldn’t be hard to find it on a map.
Comment by Anon — April 17, 2007 @ 2:22 am
Yep, found the Zaunkönigsteig; it was spelled correctly.
http://www.potsdamer-stadtplan.com/topic/bln/str/strasse/Zaunk%F6nigsteig/strasse_id/12834.html
Comment by Anon — April 17, 2007 @ 2:23 am
[...] aktuellem und historischem Material, wie zum Beispiel den Exklaven von Westberlin in der DDR, findet man auch skuriele Sachen zu denen unter anderem die Aufstellung “Wenn Planeten [...]
Pingback by strange maps - für Liebhaber von Landkarten und auf ihnen dargestellten Informationen bei im web gefunden — May 7, 2007 @ 3:41 pm
St. Perekach. stands for Stanciya Perekachki or Swap Station
Comment by Bilbo — May 14, 2007 @ 12:10 pm
@ Bilbo:
Thanks for the info!
Comment by strangemaps — May 14, 2007 @ 1:43 pm
[...] The Berlin neighbourhood of Wannsee is situated on an island cut off from the mainland by a number of lakes and canals. Before the unification of both Germanys, the island was the southwesternmost part of West Berlin. But two salients of Potsdam (then East Germany) protrude onto the island from the south, bringing the heavily guarded East-West border onto the Wannsee island. This map, an excerpt from a cadastral map of Berlin from 1953, shows the western protrusion and within that salient, three very small, oblong strips of land that belonged to Wst Berlin. These are the three Böttcherberg enclaves, sometimes counted together as one because of their small size (0,30 hectares in all), thus accounting for the difference in the number of former West Berliner enclaves in East Germany, some sources counting 10, others 12. Even when added up, the Böttcherberg troika have the smallest surface of them all. Earlier postings explain a bit about the peculiarities of the exclaves Erlengrund and Fichtewiese (#99) and Laßzinswiesen (#102). [...]
Pingback by 114 - Exclaves of West Berlin (3): the Böttcherberg Troika « strange maps — May 18, 2007 @ 4:07 pm
thanks alot
Comment by Tony — May 4, 2009 @ 2:44 am
thanks for this map.
good
luck
Comment by Solomon — May 11, 2009 @ 7:35 am
merci
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Comment by yory — June 12, 2009 @ 8:49 pm
Vielen Dank
Comment by moon — July 3, 2009 @ 4:03 am
Muchas gracias
Comment by sun — July 4, 2009 @ 6:55 am