Boundary
marker 0193 (indirect) to left and marker 0194
(indirect) to right. Closed down railway bridge between Skuodas, Lithuania
and Prikule, Latvia. Last time in regular traffic in the beginning of the
1990s. Photographed towards north.
Position:
56° 17' 36"N 21° 31' 58"E.
Indirect Lithuanian border marker no. 0193. The
bridge goes over River Apše.
Indirect Latvian border marker
no. 0194 photographed towards south.
The railway bridge in
direction towards Lithuania. In the right edge of the photo one can see the
remains of the Lithuanian concrete marker.
The remains of the concrete
marker. These markers were put only on the main international crossings
between Latvia and Lithuania, out of them three railway crossings.
On the northern river bank we
found a possible location of the Latvian concrete marker. This point was
marked with a piece of a rail.
Marker 0194 and River Apše
photographed towards northeast.
River Apše towards west.
The
bridge towards west.
Maps
Border
map of 2012 (LGIA, Latvia). The border runs in the middle of the
river.
Border
map (fragment) no. 11 of 1927 where the two concrete is drawn on the map. The old
marker no. 41 was situated about 150 metres northeast of present marker no.
0194.
The
point was visited in April 2015.
Sources
and links
Treaty of 1927, page 102.
This page was first time made on 25 April 2015. This page was
last time updated
18/06/15
.
