Five exclaves created by the territory of a former Belgian railway
track that cuts into German territory between the German towns of Rötgen and
Monschau, south of Aachen. Belgium owns the territory of the former railway track, making enclaves out of the five pieces of land separated from
the rest of Germany. In 2009 the railway track was removed since the railway
ceased its activity in 2001, but the boundary is
not changed. Maybe the former railway track will be replaced with a bicycle
track.
The exclaves are called Munsterbildchen, Rötgener
Wald [which comprises the southern parts of the town of Rötgen], Rückschlag, Mützenich and
Ruitzhof.
At boundary marker no. 750 it may look on this
Belgian map like the Mützenich enclave is connected to Germany proper over the
railroad. But the Germans, who show the road as Belgian would surely be
the most likely of the two parties to show it correctly if it was German.
Therefore we conclude that Mützenich is a German exclave.
