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Dividing lines,connecting lines
Europes cross-border herita
Co-ordinatedby Gabi Dolff-Bonekmper
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French edition:Patrimoine europen des frontires Points de rupture, espaces parta
ISBN 92-871-5545-3
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THE AUTHORS
Gabi Dolff-Bonekmper is visiting professor at the Techni
where she holds the Chair in Conservation. She has previothe Berlin Office for the Conservation of Historic Building
the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. A spec
recent history, contested sites of heritage, contemporary
twentieth century architecture and conservation theory, h
tions include: Lieux de mmoire et lieux de discorde: la
monuments in Roland Recht et al. (eds); Victor Hugo e
Paris, Somogy 2003; Sites of hurtful memory in C
Conservation Institute Newsletter 17.2002, No. 2 (Summe
Wall an archaeological site in progress inMaterial cultu
20th century conflict, John Schofield, William Gray Johns
(eds) London, Routledge, 2002.
Marieke Kuipers is professor of cultural heritage at the U
and a senior researcher with the Netherlands Department fo
An architectural historian specialised in the built heritag
twentieth century, she is currently involved in various resea
most recent heritage (after 1940). Her most recent publica
Cultural heritage and the future of the historic inner city
Amsterdam 2004.
Carmen Popescu is a research assistant at the Sorbonne (
and lectures at the Franois Rabelais University (Tours) in
porary architecture. She is specialised in nationalistic arch
assertion of identity in architecture. Among her several
national roumain: construire une nation travers larchitec
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Heritage where he co-ordinates work on recent military sites turer at Southampton University. His recent projects include
peace camps in Nevada and at Greenham Common and among
and streets of Valletta and Berlin. He recently co-authoredMod
a research framework for twentieth-century military heritage.
Bernard Toulier, a historian of architecture and a former intern
the Acadmie de France in Rome, is a Unesco expert (World Halso heads a programme run by the French National Centre fo
on holiday-related architecture in France. His numerous pub
Cte dEmeraude about the northwest coast of Brittany (co-ed
Paris, Editions du Patrimoine, Cahiers du Patrimoine serie
d'eaux. Architecture publique des stations thermales et
Imprimerie nationale, 2002, a treatise on public architecture in
seaside resorts.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND PHOTO CREDIT
Chapter I
Santiago bridge at the Franco-Spanish border, p. 25: photo
Carved monolith on the Franco-Belgian border, p. 26: photo
View of Pheasant Island, p. 27: photo Dominique Dela
Chapter II
Western Front landscape, p. 45: photo John Schofield
Trench systems at Vimy Ridge, p. 46: photo John Schofi
Landscapes of remembrance on the Western Front, p. 46: p
Coastal battery and anti-tank wall on Guernsey, p. 47: pho
Direction-finding towers on the Atlantic Wall, p. 47: phot
Chapter III
Prussian boundary pole, p. 65: photo Marieke Kuipers
Bi-national Newstreet in 1992, p. 65: photo Peter Muller, fr
M. van Rooijen, Shell Journaal, Rotterdam 1992
Caf on the Border, p. 66: photo Marieke KuipersEurode Business Centre, p. 66: photo Marieke Kuipers
Concrete stele beside the motorway, p. 67: photo Gabi Do
Watchtower at the Drewitz motorway, p. 67: photo Gabi D
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Cologne Cathedral, plan for west front and towers on pDombauarchiv Kln
Cathedral of the Coronation in Alba Iulia, p. 107: vintage
Carmen Popescu
Cathedral of Cluj, p. 107: vintage postcard collection, Carme
Sighisoara Cathedral, p. 108: photo fromArchitectura, 1939,
New church in Bogdan Voda, p. 108: photo Carmen Popescu
Chapter VI
Berlin propaganda poster, p. 113: Deutsches Historisches Mus
Stalinalle in East Berlin, p. 114: Institute fr Region
Strukturplanung in Erkner
Architectural model for the Interbau housing project, p. 1
catalogue, 1957 (Berlin Senate and Verlag Das Beispiel, Darm
House of the People, p. 115: photo Carmen Popescu
Chapter VII
The Huovila villa, p: 133: photo Olivier Monge
Nice, the two faces of Orientalism, p. 134: photo Olivier M
The Palais de la Mditerrane, p. 135: photo Olivier Mong
The White House, Rotterdam, p. 136: photo Marieke Kuipers
Norwegian Seamans Church, p. 137: photo Marieke Kuipers
Holland-America Line office, p.137: photo Marieke Kuipers
Bonded warehouses, p.138: photo Marieke Kuipers
The Bijenkorf, p. 138: photo Marieke Kuipers
Mevlana mosque, p.139: photo Marieke Kuipers
Ch VIII
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CONTENTS
Foreword .............................................................IntroductionGabi Dolff-Bonekmper ............................................
I. Breaches in borders: ritual crossing pointsconcept
Lon Pressouyre ............................................
II. Lines of tensionMarieke Kuipers and John Schofield ..................
III. Boundaries in the landscape and in the cityGabi Dolff-Bonekmper and Marieke Kuipers . .. .. .
IV. New urban frontiers and the will to belong
John Schofield ..............................................V. Asserted identities, conquered territories
Gabi Dolff-Bonekmper and Carmen Popescu . .. .. .
VI. Borders of fact, borders of the mindCarmen Popescu ............................................
VII. Commerce and cosmopolis Europes marMarieke Kuipers and Bernard Toulier .................
VIII. Mental territory the Celtic connectionBernard Toulier ..............................................
Postscript: the way ahead
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FOREWORD
In 2003-04, the Council of Europe ran a number of initiati
conflict and violence in our societies. In this context, andintercultural dialogue, it seemed a good idea to take a fresh
is both meaningful in itself and a good starting-point for f
cultural heritage.
Heritage reflects the periods of openness, peace and prosp
past but it also reflects the periods of tension. If we wan
ture of the history of European society and of the origins which have divided it, then we need to consider the variou
heritage has been interpreted and the disagreements which
This collection suggests linking the heritage theme with th
frontiers or frontiers of the mind. Frontiers are critical. On
or that side. Frontiers are disturbing. They are places of c
or negation. They mark off identities and groups. But they
cination, as dividing lines which invite us to strike out i
new contacts, and transcend the old and familiar.
Europes frontiers are undoubtedly the place where Europes
verge and meet. Indeed, European identity may emerge mo
cal dividing lines where everything initially seems hard
becomes possible.
This publication points the way to deeper research into Eu
history of relations between the cultural communities whi
asset. It should generate various new initiatives. In this w
itage, we shall rediscover the guiding threads we need to pu
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INTRODUCTION
Gabi Dolff-Bonekmper
This publication sets out to pinpoint and highlight som
shared cultural heritage. However, instead of focusing on w
in famous cities, we are following a different path a pa
ders. We are looking, in other words, at outer boundaries, t
one territory or identity from another, and these are the th
understand and relate to one another. Borders may well be tcial, the distinctive is most powerfully affirmed, but th
where people meet, where adventures and experiences
become possible:
[B]orders are not just dividing lines, places where
selves; they can also be places of exchange and enrichm
identities are formed. They furnish a setting for encounteplace in any other place, since, snugly at home in ones
stands every chance of meeting only carbon copies of on
words in the mouths of others, and running into
(Warschawksi, 2000, editorial translation.)
Why treat borders as heritage? Because Europes nation stat
and national units which preceded them, have left us a legold or recent (sometimes very recent), accepted or conte
threatening or all but invisible. These borders are lines, b
reality, they stand for something bigger border regions
zones places where cultures have met and mingled or li
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necessary, encourage debate and demand critical exploration. Thof memory and a focus for consensus, just as sights of memor
fied by their heritage status can at any moment spa
Alternatively, they can remain ambivalent and double-edged. T
one coin. Once we realise that discord can be part of memory,
discord, this particular heritage offers us an even richer field
reflection.
Our aim in focusing on the heritage of borders is to highlig
ity of cultural heritage, and particularly of buildings, sites an
still carry the signs and traces of the intentions which shape
nal uses, and the changes, destruction and conversions they
in the meantime. Far more than written sources, they reflec
relapses, the agreements and conflicts which have made our
are today. Their material complexity is matched by a se
which often ensures that more than one interpretation is pos
But we need to be able to read them, decipher their message, i
and sometimes dig through to a meaning which contradicts w
first to be saying. And yet we know that the last word on he
spoken, that new ways of interpreting it and the values it em
be possible. Indeed, our vision of heritage is fundamentally ferent ways in which successive generations have interpr
adjusting their vision to match changing social needs, which
the material substance of buildings and artifacts. Discuss
itself become heritage, sometimes clouding our vision of
point where we need to pull back and re-focus. Thus, social in
our perception and treatment of physical substance, which r
preserved an intractable irritant to those who want to beco
tory.
The authors who have worked together closely on this pu
Dutch, Romanian, French and German all agree that Europe
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the peace protesters. What is left of all these once deadly dtraces tell us, what do they evoke? Finally, what is their
for Europe?
Marieke Kuipers and myself approach the same questio
using two very different examples to study borders in the lan
scapes: the remains of the Berlin Wall, marking a border
real and deadly, and signs and traces of the old frontieKerkrade/Herzogenrath, half-German and half-Dutch, on
Schengen Agreement. The barbed wire fence between t
Germans in 1939 and 2.5 metres high, was progressively
totally demolished in 1991, although there are still some tr
show where the border used to be. We actually think it
Kerkrade/Herzogenrath and other places too to preserve th
ders once fortified at times of conflict and tension, so tha
remember them. They should remain a visible part of the ru
as an archaeological reminder of frontiers once fortified and
Borders between states and power blocs left their mark on
John Schofield takes us to the other extreme in his article
in one of Europes great metropolises, London. These new
specific communities, and he finds them in outlying dis
London. When people who share a nationality, an ethn
sexual preference congregate in a given area, the result
homogeneity, which is reflected in signs, decor and recogni
iour. Recognisable, above all, to those who share the co
where their territory starts and ends. Sometimes obviou
these frontiers are social realities in Europes major citietheir cultural topography, particularly in underprivileged
tural groups cluster in ethnoscapes sometimes coexist
flict. Once social archaeologists start exploring them, the
may become sites of memory for tomorrows urban societ
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the modern world, which they would not otherwise have hadcountless medieval monuments in the nineteenth century ob
growing interest and respect commanded by these cultural and a
but can also be seen as cultural propaganda a means of stre
sion and unity of the young nations. The use, on new building
style redolent of a countrys past and national character served
This revisiting of the nations past to affirm its present was ders and in border territories, particularly when those border
drawn (redrawn), and those territories recently acquired, by tr
force of arms.
In her essay on Borders of fact, borders of the mind, Carme
to think about the huge East/West divide created in Europe by
physical border, with its watchtowers, mines and barbed wirepeople from passing, but its mental correlative the border
went as high as the clouds and stopped ideas from getting throu
was a bipolar world, where even building styles reflected the
in east and west Berlin.
Marieke Kuipers and Bernard Toulier write on Commerce
Europes maritime borders. Their contribution brings us back tiers are places for exchange. For centuries, seaside resorts an
tional maritime and river ports have been places where peopl
can happen. The well-heeled visitors, who used to converge fr
of northern and eastern Europe to winter on the Mediterranean
cosmopolitan almost extra-territorial enclave, where the r
ease in comfort. Their second example is Rotterdam, a great t
the presence of seamen and merchants from all parts of the w
turned into a free zone. For years, Rotterdam has been a plac
new arrivals from all classes of society work side by side. It
munity has brought it a multitude of languages, cooking style
lt Lik Ni thi h d it t t it i l lth
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within the UK. So what function does this imagined those who are anxious to affirm their Celtic identity an
to construct an identity for Europe?
Cosmopolitanism: is it something which really exists, or
dream of a world in which people of various origins live
agree on certain basic cultural values, and accept one anotattempt to impose their own values and customs? Is it ne
privileged few, who pass effortlessly from one European c
money smoothing the way? Can cosmopolitan discourse, w
attitudes and purely local loyalties, and sees nationality its
ible, become European discourse? Can cosmopolitanism b
value in constructing a community of the mind to embracEurope?
And that other much-touted concept, multiculturalism: d
all the ingredients in the mixture are equal and compatible
anything in the real world, or is it just a social theory, w
cities of the West and aimed at integrating immigrants wattain the same economic, social and political status as nat
able to win acceptance through their culture? We need to
this concept to work in our research on Europes heritage.
Finally, what about our constructed identities? Put togeth
twentieth centuries, when the nation states were emerginging point of all our thinking on unity and diversity in Eu
have themselves become heritage, transmitted as part of th
and there is no denying their reality. As a result, the bound
tities often but not always coinciding with territorial a
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Belgrade and Constantinople established neutral zones onOttoman Empire. These included the barren area no mans la
created between the towns of Azov and Perekop in 1700, wh
symbolic contradictions inherent in these ambiguous concept
For a long time, borders were simply lines or zones. Then cam
in a sense, did away with them, creating a third and wholly nnew because it no longer lies on the outer edge of the coun
modern airport Marc Aug (1992) calls it a non-place
border, totally, unforeseeably innovative in its morphol
International airports, which exhibit all the contradictions of
bly doors to the world. They offer tax-free or duty-free goo
seems written into their design (Berlins Tempelhof opens its awhile Roissy 1 in Paris pushes out its satellites to meet the
are also firmly locked. Border controls are more systematic a
ports than anywhere else: security checks, identity checks, c
sometimes health checks are concentrated there, as they are in
firm reminder that airports far from opening wide to the sk
strictly limit and regulate access to both.
This brings us to a crucial question: is a breach really a barrie
place names indeed might suggest that. The Brche de Roland
in the wall of the Pyrenees between France and Spain, sounds l
out by a giant sword, and not like a safe and easy passage. The
Danube also sound firmly closed. General Weygand may have 1933, when he spoke of Vaubans wish to encircle France w
under Louis XIV. Twelve years later, condemning the sealing
in a letter to President Harry S. Truman on 12 May 1945,
coined the term Iron Curtain This again harks back to the
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two borders in the space of six kilometres. Since 1995, tSplit in the north and Dubrovnik in the south have had to
find this annoying, Croatians are unlikely to find it any les
Prime Minister Ivo Sanader actually announced plans for
Klek Bridge from the Peljesac peninsula, bypassing the N
Calais, the Channel Tunnel and Eurostar provide a new
Kingdom. But this breach, too, has its bolt. Until recentlymany of them from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and ev
at the Sangatte centre. Now, they simply hang around in
close to the tunnel, waiting for a chance to slip past the p
Channel. And so the crossing point becomes a checkpoint
This paradoxical combination of easy passage and tight sec
ilance, is typical as if one automatically summoned up
bridge at Pont-Saint-Esprit, long the main crossing point o
between the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Emp
Empi (Empire) and Riau (Kingdom), instead of por
controlled by a tower on the French side. The message is st
stream, where the castles of Beaucaire and Tarascon guard tmajor bridge above the delta. Nowadays, these fortresses fr
either side of a dead border. With the military rationale gone
metry is the only thing left as if the aim had been to glori
Symbols of a frontier, images of a breach
Fortified frontiers are an extreme case, and they highlight th
by the physical markers or symbols of places where fronti
where their divisive character is clearest.
Europe has never had anything like the Great Wall of Chin
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on. Vaubanspr carrscheme, which used just a few fortress tofrontier, is another example. Finally, there are the fortified lin
century the Siegfried and Maginot lines, which were, like t
neither continuous nor impassable. In military terms, a breac
uum, a point of least resistance, where the right strategy can f
Walls, forts, blockhouses (and the gaps between them) are notthis open/shut dichotomy on frontiers. Boundary stones carry
message. These have a long tradition, going all the way back
the Greek city states, when associated effigies of Zeus or Her
them sacred status. Europe has many old boundary markers, s
ing the evanescence of yesterdays dividing lines, others the
traces. An example is the monolith on the Franco-Belgian bordbearing on one side thefleur-de-lys of France, on the other the
the Habsburgs (Culot, 2001: 112-113). Frontiers seen as eter
to be made visible. Between 1886 and 1950, 602 stones som
were set up on the Franco-Spanish frontier. Others followed
For example, the stone carved by Jorge Oteiza and erected on
between Hendaye and Irun was toppled by Basque separatists i44). For them, the border dividing Euzkadi into two was a
imposed by the colonising nation states, Spain and Franc
stone, they were getting rid of a spurious division and procla
demands.
Frontier markers delimit territories, but the barriers they cr
imaginary than real. For a long time, seasonal migration of l
the commonest transgressions on marked frontiers. Under p
referred to in all the traits de lie et de passeries (treaties betwe
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Like walls, forts and boundary markers, customs regulatmark on border zones. Initially, when customs barriers coin
land frontiers, they affected national peripheries, but heartla
once the bulk of international trade began to pass through
Londons enormous Customs House, designed by Laing
mental facade 150 metres long by Robert Smirke, is the cl
der displacement pre-dating the age of air travel. The constructed on the Canal Saint-Martin in 1844, is another
dents of nineteenth-century architecture for Jules Lisch
which help to underline the anomalous nature of its presenc
Nicolas Ledouxs customs posts at the old city gates mak
Customs House strikes an incongruous note in a setting w
canal was decommissioned is left to suggest a frontier.
So where are customs barriers breached? For a long time, t
in out-of-the-way and inaccessible places. Smugglers Wa
Smugglers Creek are some of the place names that still
gression regular, but limited. Road, rail and air trave
offences for the old ones. Coastal smuggling is the only tra
survived, with tobacco and narcotics as key items. Anothe
bazaars and other markets followed the line taken by V
Ferney was constructed on the border with Switzerland, m
was just a room away, if needed. Today, sales points astrid
been replaced by border zone supermarkets, outside the n
Border heritage an aid to understanding oth
There are two ways of approaching Europes border heritag
with typology, the second with education.
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But this cataloguing exercise, though essential, is not enough.ever detailed, will ever generate that sense of belonging which
ing for heritage and ensures its transmission to future g
particularly true of border heritage, which, more than any othe
foster a sense of shared identity. Its natural associations are
repression and control with others seen as alien and hostile.
This fact may justify a selective approach to border heritage. M
for example, is highly sensitive, and can serve as common gro
ficient time has passed and memories of war have been sublim
is the fortress at Maastricht on the border between Belgium a
which is now a landscape feature with no polemical significan
the fortress of Smederevo on the Danube, constantly fought
Turks from 1429 to 1887, and heavily damaged in 1941 and 1
biggest tourist attractions in the former Yugoslavia, just as it
This is even truer of castles built to guard frontiers between
longer exist as separate entities. The Guelphic and Ghibelline f
now simply part of the medieval heritage, and the bitter strugg
and Papacy are forgotten. In France, Chteau-Gaillard, fortifiand its French counterpart, Gisors contending products of
Clair-sur-Epte (911), through which the King of France ceded t
to the Scandinavian chieftain, Rollon, are just holiday centre
Spaniards, the Alhambra and Generalife in Granada no longer
threat extinguished in 1492. Once appropriated and hispanic
they later recovered their status as the jewels of the Arab-MuAl-Andalus.
So, must we resign ourselves, take the easy way out, and kee
ment for monuments which have no conflict-related connota
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themselves to study of the process whereby layers of heritawhose identity has been shaped by successive inputs throu
However, focusing on the exceptional, which might a
enclave towns, like Trieste in the past and Kaliningrad to
a broader approach. All cities today are multicultural by de
new frontiers, whether overt or invisible. Such frontiers e
of Tower Hamlets in London and in the Goutte dOr
Sometimes, when ghettos are recreated, or areas occupied b
organised around places of worship, they are explicitly rel
they are language-based, as in the Chinatowns, where
Asian communities are welcome, but shop signs mean no
residents who hang on stubbornly, as if in a foreign land.
Studying these new areas could help us to devise a heritage
of potentially conflictual frontier situations. Paradoxicall
alone to manage border heritage would entail a twofold r
starry-eyed tendency to focus complacently on sites regar
cord, such as Pheasant Island, a tiny Franco-Spanish
Bidassoa, or the resundsbroen, the huge bridge that haSweden since 1999. Conversely, it might spark a rabidly
that frontiers actual or claimed are sacred and non-nego
connection with the war memorial at Cavour in Italy (Gu
1974: 1; Foucher. 1991: 59-60), and is happening today in
emerged from the break-up of the Soviet Union since 1990
Involving border regions like Alsace (France), Thrac
(Romania), the Serbian Vojvodina and the Carpathian fo
looking at the problems they have faced, the kinds of cultu
fostered and the daily migration some of them are increasi
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CHAPTERII
LINES OF TENSION
Marieke Kuipers and John Schofield
Throughout history, nations and ethnically or politically
occupied territories and sought to claim or defend these pl
necessarily through aggression. As a consequence, historic
stantly being negotiated, contested and renegotiated and
Since the Treaty of Vienna (1815), the concept of the nationational borders has formed a significant part of the Europe
ence of place. This chapter will explore that European bor
history, character, meaning and significance of these lines
examples from the two world wars and the Cold War.
The lines of tension that are created or recreated during perio
a feature of Europes cultural landscape for hundreds of yereflect deep-rooted ethnic disputes that have led to the crea
national borders that further impose division on landscape a
extreme are more transient borders reflecting impermane
they occur on the field of battle, as on the Western Front
imposed by strategists predicting some last line of defence
in south-west England and the Salpa line in south-east F
this. All lines of tension will however have particular soc
cance in understanding the impact of conflict on society an
especially true for the two world wars, the Cold War, and t
ethnically-motivated disputes of Eastern Europe.
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directors (for example, the bloody incidents on the stairs of Seto the revolt on the battleship Potemkin of 1905, in Serg
Potemkin). A re-enactment between striking coal miners and
South Yorkshire in 1984-85 demonstrated how popular cultu
combine, in this case to achieve catharsis among former com
also illustrated the fluidity of boundaries, as the running battles
landscape, with groups of combatants splitting and conve
unfolded (Deller, 2002), contrasting the still photographs tmedia, of a line of police facing a line of miners. One needs fi
careful reading of the media accounts and interpretation of ora
to understand the true nature of the conflict and the meaning an
lines of tension it created. Other better-known examples of thi
from Northern Ireland. Here the fluidity of street conflict can
porary news footage of Bloody Sunday for example, while th
tension are the substantial but less well documented peacCatholic and Protestant communities (Jarman, 2002: 285; see
Posehn, this volume).
Legacies of the First and Second World Wars, an
More conspicuous are the physical traces of military conflictEurope. Some military works were built as national defence
time, as a means of conflict-preparedness (for example the fo
Lige and Verviers, the Maginot line, the Salpa line and the M
case of the young Republic of Czechoslovakia, French engin
sulted, so that its long defence line was influenced by the Fren
Gross et al., 1997). Other works were constructed by occupying
of attack or defence during wartime, such as the Atlantic Wall
Lines of tension existing in the First World War were both flu
by definition the Western Front was meant to move, yet it did
extent that for much of the time and especially to partici
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former battlefields speak to our imagination as places of b
ship; the historic front lines have now become places of
and cultural resource management. On another level is
which the dangers posed by unexploded ordnance create a
and others that work this countryside.
Long lines of tension, crossing what are now national bord
ing the Second World War are represented by the wel
Westwall and the Atlantic Wall. These examples are syno
struction efforts to reinforce boundaries and create barriers
Westwall in the Rhineland, also known as the Siegfriedl
Dutch to the Swiss border and was conceived as a decentra
defence line with 14 000 concrete constructions based on
building types. Behind the wall the so-called Air-Defence Z
anti-aircraft batteries and shelters (Gross et al., 1997). DWorld War most of these defence works were blown up b
near the French and Belgian borders; only short stretche
around Aachen remain as well as ruined gun
Panzerabwehrkanone (PAK) Garage.
In all, just 1% of the Westwall structures built in the
Westphalia survive (ibid.: 114). Exactly on the German-Dmer testing area of the Dutch air force, the Venlo airbas
night fighters that helped to defend the industrial Ruhr area
the airbase parts of the airstrip and an airship hanger are use
club, while on the Dutch side the control tower and comm
serving nowadays for alpinist training. Although not stric
defensive Westwall per se, these structures are among the m
this region.
The Salpa line in the north is less well known, though
1 200 kilometres of the border between Finland and Russia
manent fortifications, with less substantial fieldworks t
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economised Dutch works, the English defences were carefully
and well managed. Although comparatively little survives toda
England remain in more or less their original form and configu
scape setting relatively unchanged since 1940. These so-called
been studied by English Heritage1 with a view to ensuring sym
agement (Foot, 2003).
The Iron Curtain is a well-known example of the legacy of poliflict, in this case dividing East from West in the Cold War. M
tion, this is remarkable both for its size and effectiveness as a
for the speed with which it was first constructed and then rem
have an impact on the landscape of the former borderlands, b
(see, for example, Szpanowski, 2002) and in Berlin. Not only a
also in its respective hinterlands enormous military works hpreparation for or countering long-distance attack. The Cold W
esting material legacy as it represents a combination of natio
struction effort through the influence of alliances. Nato fo
American units to the United Kingdom, and British units to W
construction being very different to that undertaken by the UK
settled also in the Dutch province of Limburg, immediately in
Belgium and Germany while the headquarters of the Allied F(previously Afcent) have settled since 1967 on the abandoned
mines (providing new employment but at the expense of the r
itage).
In the East, Russian units were stationed in vast numbers in E
ing that now, within the national borders of Germany, the leghas particular pertinence, with the line of the frontier and the
opposing forces available for scrutiny and study. The Cold War
nowhere; a placeless war (Uzzell, 1998: 18), and it is that wh
rial remains of such interest to those engaged with conserving
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Spatial contextIn almost every European town physical reminders of con
commemorative plaques, war memorials or war damage a
tion. This was the case at Ypres, almost entirely reconstru
World War, and numerous rebuilt cities after the Second Wo
to Dresden, Warsaw to Le Havre). Traces of conflict will
side the towns in the form of military works, battlefields instance around Ypres and Verdun). Whether urban or rur
are best appreciated at landscape scale as examples are of
structions that cover large areas or related smaller works w
their close association within a landscape context (see, for
Local manifestations of lines of tension exist as well, refl
comparable ideological and political disparities, enacteGreenham Common, West Berkshire, England, for exampl
separated the presence of ground-launched cruise missiles
their deployment. These fences, with their cuts and repairs,
example of the archaeology of opposition, while there is a
torical evidence, from peace women to security guards, me
munity to students who marched on Greenham under the ban
Peace (see http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/greenham/inde
oral historical accounts and pictures). Material remains of
exist therefore on various scales, in different forms and with
permanence. They all, however, have significance in unde
conflict, its impact on society, and its effect on landscape ch
pretation of history. At the same time it is important to
remains provide a moral lesson about repetition and learninthus creating a real challenge for those involved in conserv
This paper is partly written with these curators and custo
lowing examples will give a short introduction to this lega
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Among these various layers some things remain constant, no
which the lines of tension define the nature of the war, and giv
points to the otherwise unimaginable scale of loss and destr
here less than a century ago.
The material culture of the Western Front (predominantly the
wire) remain, but to varying degrees. Some areas contain battle
have seen little post-war alteration, except to create sacred coscapes and limited areas of reconstruction for the benefit of vi
Hamel for example, where the Canadian Newfoundland Regim
1916, the trenches survive as denuded earthworks, still deep a
in plan to be an accurate reflection of the battlefield terrain. A
ever, the situation is different. Here some trenches have been r
walks and timber shuttering, and re-excavated to their forme
here it is easy to appreciate the full impact of battle, with the mible in the adjacent woods, signs warning of unexploded ordn
tunnels deep underground.
Barbed wire is a significant component of all lines of tension
in the late nineteenth century. In Olivier Razacs Barbed wire
(2002), its role in the First World War is assessed including in
referencing by Second World War poets and artists. Barbed wiraesthetic of the battlefield (Razac, 2002: 48), and an example
ture can become critical to interpretation and meaning. Be
German and French trench systems, Razac noted similariti
opponents used wire, which contemporary accounts describe a
and terrifying. It represented the risk the soldier must run, in d
It was:
a salient attribute of the memory of the Great War. It neve
for the war, because it does not symbolize the entire conflict
in the trenches. Nevertheless barbed wire could be said to h
f ki th t bli it f th f f d
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Finally, these landscapes of memory that have emerged ar
value as commemorative and sacred landscapes, and this va
lined by such organisations as the British War Graves C
when plans are being made for new infrastructure that imp
fields. Here the tensions between commemorating a tragic
improved access to an open Europe are deeply felt. These
now bring cultural benefits in terms of tourism and educat
Western Front are tourist attractions, with signs and carveindicate points of attack and places of loss. It is interestin
als and markers, as well as in cemeteries, the commemor
remains problematic.
In order to retain the historic military character of former b
interest in them, the correct balance must be struck betw
respect for the sacred, and provision of an informative, revisitor attraction. Leaving some sites as found and develop
answer, as do on-site museums and interpretative centres,
But another option is to consider meeting all needs on sing
tive sites. This has recently been the subject of study s
Affairs Canada for the sites at Vimy Ridge and Beaumon
With experts from various conservation bodies and agencieand worked through on site and under workshop conditio
conservation, and interpretative principles. The need for ba
and the sites zoned according to their sensitivity and sacre
sites and landscapes, and their suitability for public access
ation and signage. Balance was achieved and management p
basis of these discussions. Although neither of these Frenc
tory protection, an agreed management plan provides an meeting future management needs.
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The German defences constructed on the Normandy Peninsula
Islands formed one section of the wider Atlantic Wall. This sec
survived well and represents one of the most significant battlefi
Normandy coast north of Bayeux (where William the Conque
was chosen for Operation Overlord, the invasion of occupied F
forces on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The five landing beaches or s
mouths of the rivers Orne and St Marcouf had codenames, on
Omaha Beach and Utah Beach are today best known, partly dfilm The Longest Day, and Spielbergs more recent Saving
Arromanches-les-Bains the so-called Mulberry harbour is par
meant for temporary use but consisted of pontoons, caisson
forming piers 12 kilometres long. Despite their significance,
harbour nor the beaches are protected as cultural sites. Many Ge
remain in the region, several being in use as war museums.
Near Cherbourg several half-built defence works can be found w
pleted due to the invasion. Also an originally French battery
survived, albeit under the German name Seeadler. Although no
Atlantic Wall, this area and in particular between Cherbou
Valognes had been used by the German army for the prod
transportation and launch of the V1 and V2 missiles. Parts
plexes and their related infrastructure also remain. Some were war; other intended sites were never completed. All these relic
ous stages of completion or ruination to the quick changes in
counteraction. As such they are really historical landmarks, m
the final and decisive war phase.
The British Channel Islands were the only part of Great Britain t
the Second World War (Cruickshank, 1975), the remains sumostly on Jersey, Alderney and Guernsey. Apart from anti-tank
other military structures, the islands were provided with impre
tion-finding towers which are unique among all works of the
symbolic status like clenched fists creating a defensive peri
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Memory plays a key role in understanding and conser
Atlantic Wall. These are different to fortifications in Eng
were built by an occupying force that was eventually defe
started just before 1960 to document the bunkers of the Atl
reactions he had among those that witnessed his work: th
form of graffiti, the concrete flanks covered with insults
showing in measuring and taking pictures of them someti
hostile brunt (Virilio, 1994: 13). Feelings of vengeance of bunkers destroyed to the joy of local inhabitants, as
Many told me that these concrete landmarks frightened t
many bad memories (ibid.). And finally hatred, passers-b
fears of the occupants of these places. These are affective l
lines of tension their most potent force.
Interpretation will gradually change as memories fade and new and perhaps unimagined ways. The influence of nature
defence works seem much more vulnerable than under
attacks and some, like Virilio, became attracted by the aes
ing ones and the complexity of their meaning:
These concrete blocks were in fact the final throw-offs o
from the Romanlimes
to the Great Wall of China; the btary surface architecture, had shipwrecked at lands limit
of the skys arrival in war; they marked off the horizonta
limit. History had changed course one final time before
sity of aerial space (Virilio, 1994: 12).
Due to the differing experiences of the German occupation a
post-war conservation and rural policy, the countries involv
Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the Channeldiverse strategies to deal with the remains of the Atlanti
detailed documentation and publications are available, whi
works serve nowadays as defence museums. Some signific
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the peace community opposed to this deployment. The line of
is the boundary that divided these two constituencies (Scho
2000).
Greenham Common is synonymous with the escalation of t
Cold War (Cocroft and Thomas, 2003: 76-8). It was one of the
that were home to ground-launched cruise missiles, and it
became the focal point for opposition to nuclear arms and ar
women were frequently in the news, causing obstructions to
disrupting movement around the base perimeter. This was
opposition within the society that hosted American service
the wider context of Nato. In effect, the United States Air Fo
for maintaining this weapons system, and did so at the specia
sioned GLCM alert and maintenance area (Gama). Beyond the
this site was one of the several peace camps at Greenham occwho opposed cruise deployment. Like the Cold War, that g
global political context, this too was effectively a stand-off
scale. The peace community and service personnel lived a more
existence, the war in their terms being more a war of words th
Now, ten years after cruise missiles were removed under intern
remains, as do the physical remnants of the peace camps and
boundary that kept these communities apart. This tattered fenlogical struggle that in part defined this later period of the Col
der issues central to the discussions of conflict and its role
modern world, and provides a physical legacy of the actions and
itary personnel and the peace community. No longer visible b
photograph and oral histories are various symbolic forms
brightly coloured wools, childrens clothes, photographs, p
attached to the fences (Blackwood. 1984; Junor, 1995). Their
vert the fences; to make them less male, less military, less fun
ridiculous (Schofield and Anderton, 2000: 244). For all of the
has been included in the sites statutory protection.
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InterpretationsWhat all of these examples demonstrate is the multi-vocali
of tension, specifically in terms of cultural heritage. For e
politicians, activists, archaeologists, historians, preserva
material remains represent different values and priorities. A
torians we recognise their potency as places of historic
places that convey the meaning of past events. We need tlandscapes to provide that first hand experience; that sense o
We try to interpret these places objectively, and now increa
enquiring as to the accuracy and comprehensiveness of wr
and official historic overviews), oral histories and physi
reports of some trench systems on the Western Front that
clearly show having seen conflict, yet which do not appea
Here archaeology will play a significant part in interpretat
Over time perceptions have changed, and will continue to d
of new developments and new priorities in society, both at l
national level. Remarkably, the continuity of specific pub
such as the daily Last Post ceremony at the M
Remembrance Day, the national ceremonies on 4 May in th
varying association with the physical remains of the formememorated; their location is sometimes far away from the
often their appearance or surroundings have changed
However, the reinterpretation of historical events by mean
an even greater impact on the remnants. The divergence bet
rial authenticity of the place and the reinterpreted sense of
Detlef Hoffmann has noted for other examples, the authent
increasingly defined by the longing for authenticity and extivity of the recalled and the objectivity of the place; and t
is difficult to draw (Hoffmann, 2000: 43).
Military archaeology is comparatively new as an objectiv
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In the case of (formerly) occupied territory the feelings had for l
by hatred and vengeance, while in countries that successfully d
attitudes are likely to be very different. This is inevitable, tho
will gradually reduce with time, as can be noticed in the case
which became placed in the range of historic fortifications. Ac
the Atlantic Wall is, in fact, a military conservation are
shore the last bastion is a theatre where wars past and presentspot Fortress Europe is a masterpiece of retrenchment; e
is used to defend it (Virilio , 1975, editorial translation).
Since the end of the Second World War many defence works ha
erase the symbols of painful memories, but equally some have
permanent houses or holiday accommodation; others are now
museums. From works of defence they have become monumeprotected (Ambachtsheer, 1995).
Meaning
All books on European history contain references to historic
stituent element for understanding the past; often the narrativseries of military conflicts and a redivision of powers and l
interwar period makes evident how deep the impact is of
especially on European culture, but only rarely are the exact pl
borders, the battlefields, the numbers of lost lives and casual
those who nowadays cross the borders and seek to explore form
will find the traces of wartime heritage in all its ambivalence a
rounding landscape, and mostly in peace; in that respect nowadays more positive than it was during the period of con
the lines of tension the military works as well as the memo
teries can be read in various ways: as products of fortificatio
itary architecture of military technology of commemora
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have survived in a different representation, but gradually th
in the perspective of cultural heritage rather than as alien o
The main point here concerns the significance of these ba
conflict and memory for providing a context and a tangible
toric events, and the key role of the actual lines of tension
opposing forces met (in reality or symbolically), in the
sometimes painful pasts on a European scale. It is for thesecan read significance into the fence that divided the peace an
at Greenham, shouting at each other from either side of a
the gaze of East German border guards as one looks across
East Berlin; and the strategists view of the Western Front,
opposition, or the Atlantic Wall, a robust defence of fists
unseen enemy. In all cases it is the line itself that provide
the event from both sides, as well as all the other material rlocality.
Proposals for future action
Lines of tension provide valuable lessons for present an
Europeans. They provide the material evidence for a collecfor planning for the future. This can be achieved in two wa
vation (including education).
Research will ideally move beyond the constraints of s
become more integrated. Historians and social historians c
sources both for conflict per se, and its wider social and eco
physical mapping of remains is important, and here geogracan work together to develop a more thorough understanding
Geographical information systems will be invaluable in pro
tlefields never before seen or appreciated, and allowing a m
t ti A th l i t t ill h l bl t ib
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Conservation involves taking decisions now that will determ
able for future generations. The remains of contested borders a
vary in character, recognisability, coherence and spatial cont
countries have included historical defence works in their lists
ments on the basis of their historicity (from the Roman lime
Some countries are still hesitant to see the physical traces of th
in terms of heritage because of the painful memories. Also le
restrictive effect on acknowledgement or protection, such aswhich excludes sites less than fifty-years-old from being listed
restrictions would enable a wider range of heritage resources to
levels.
Meanwhile, the former strategic landscape of the places of
stant process of change for peaceful reasons (urban developm
tourism, infrastructure, coastal reinforcement and so forth). Towith respect for the historical meaning of these places, an
preservation and cultural planology is recommended, such
cultural historical value maps used in the Netherlands, or ba
sation principles, as is taking place now in England and elsewh
Rippon, 2002). In some cases former fortresses can be convert
icated to the conflict in which they played a role, but other k
will leave the sites military character more or less intact shouwell. Some former lines of tension are now already part of recr
vided with information panels. Also war cemeteries and former
cated as places to visit.
The theme of historic lines of tension has thus far been mo
national level, and especially in western European countries. I
encourage more international collaboration and exchange oEurope, in order to develop a better understanding of the two s
borders.
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Excavated and restored. Trench systems at Vimy Ridge.
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A coastal battery and anti-tank wall on Guernsey, now enjoyed by tourists.
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CHAPTERIII
BOUNDARIES IN THE LANDSCAPE AND IN TH
Gabi Dolff-Bonekmper and Marieke Kuipers
State boundaries are traditionally conceived of as the limit
But they are also socio-spatial constructions related to ter
identity and landscape. Their manifestations as well as the
various practices and discourses in relation to power and
both lines of division and lines of contact, inclusion or e
contestation. Besides the intended artefacts of demarcatio
various side effects can be noted of the presence of a bou
Differences in legislation, policy, economy, ideology and c
influence on the borderscape. The significance and the
have changed tremendously among European countries, es
the twentieth century. Recently, some of the former barriermore open and partially obsolete, if not removed, while new
structed around the extended European Union. This chap
effects of the geographical boundaries within Europe, espe
includes examples of Berlin and Kerkrade-Herzogenrath.
The concept of Europe can be related to many entities: a c
communities in an area of moderate and sometimes wet c
political entity of forty-six individual states. Each state is
territory, each territory is defined by boundaries to disting
impact of borders on the landscape goes beyond the commo
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delimitation of private land started with stones, poles, fence
fixed on the imaginary borderline and visible for all in the land
Biblical times, and throughout antiquity, any re-location of th
would be severely punished.1 Markers were followed by cont
finally by inscription in land registers, less visible on the sp
and words on paper and secured by administrative rules. The N
tration supplemented private ownership in much of western Eu
public territories municipality, province, state and these ptheir validity up till today. Also, land has a double meaning
another to country and community, and the two lands do not ne
rather the boundaries have been contested over time. As a co
between states are man-made constructions, even in desolate
barriers serve to establish the boundaries, such as water, sw
ranges (for example, the Pyrenees and the Riesengebirge). Riboundary or an international route for trade and transport; in t
cial barriers were made across their route (for example, the R
Danube). In built-up areas similar ambivalent situations exi
case of bi-national cities. Moreover, economic and sociocultu
land use, language or ethnic group, are reflected in the landsc
One way or another, borders create distortions in the built env
like solidifications of the topographical division lines; they p
derscapes on either side of the borderline (Harbers, 2003).
Types of borderscape
Depending on the chosen parameters, around six different types
can be distinguished, apart from the military borderscapes of natraditional borderlands, bi-national cities, zones of interrupt
example the never completed Adenbach railroad viaduct in the R
zones, zones of irregular allocation or migration and obsolete
Boundaries in
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In the Netherlands, for instance, the 544 kilometre-long
Germany reflects the long history of feudal states; some bo
Denekamp and Hardenberg are the oldest remaining type
Bentheim and the Burgundian cross as references to the tw
ferent series of land markers can be distinguished, referring
in the history of land re-division. The 450 kilometre-long b
defined in detail in 1843, when it was decided to place a s
poles of iron or stone with the arms of the new Belgian son the relevant sides and a torch on top, as a symbol of vig
160 years, these poles still exist and every year they are com
if necessary, repaired.
Even on high, rugged mountain ridges, permanent boundar
such as the square poles in the Silvretta massif, indicatSwitzerland and Austria. The symbolic meaning of boun
that this form was chosen for the recently erected monu
Agreement to create a Europe without borders; it is locate
Schengen, Luxembourg, near the borders with Germany an
lines were meant to regulate the movement of people, by
cific places, nature could develop without restriction on ei
fences demarcating the border. Such natural areas have other
in western Europe, and after the Schengen Agreement vario
tage of the new opportunities arising from free border cross
borderland areas as a bi-national nature park, where the hi
are often the only man-made construction. Where border c
at slow speed on foot, perhaps bicycle or horse (instead of
rience the artificiality, if not the arbitrariness, of a land di
much more so than at a regular customs post on a highwa
control post inside an airport terminal.
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Treaty of London (1839), where the Dutch-Belgian borderline
through an old house and the control of crossing has never b
presence of a frontier within the city centre has never caused ser
tainly not trauma. The scarcely tangible references to the inter
have a rather banal, inconspicuous character; if they have any v
very local and painless. In sharp contrast with this is the su
where the concrete wall became the symbol of the Iron Curtain
of East and West in Europe. On a minor scale, the evolution ofs-Hertogenrade in the Maas Valley, split up into two municip
cores and different nationalities, has been deeply influenced b
agreed subdivision of 1816. Just after the big wall in Berlin f
wall in the Nieuwstraat/Neustrae (Newstreet), which separa
Kerkrade from the German town Herzogenrath, was removed
national and bilingual city is in the process of shaping the Eu
Bi-national Newstreet towards Eurode: Kerkrade
Origin of the borderline on Newstreet
The adjacent towns of Kerkrade (the Netherlands) and Herzogen
belonged for centuries to theLandof s-Hertogenrade in the eley, which has a long and complicated history of ever-changing
aries. In 1794 the territory was conquered by French t
incorporated into the French Republic. The entity of s-Hertoge
old coal mining industry had been established under th
Augustinian monastery of Rolduc/Kloosterrade, fell apart after
Waterloo and the following Congress of Vienna in 1815, wwere negotiated. The Concert of Powers and local geogra
rivers and roads help to explain the awkward result. Here, at i
kingdom of Prussia had sought compensation for the lost terr
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built in 1891-92 by Brother M. Klein, is a typical reminder of
Kulturkampf.
Visibility of the state division
During the First World War, the Netherlands had anxiously
tried to keep its political neutrality. For the first time, the st
very tangible in the streetscape and it caused serious tensionstion. The international controversies were felt in a very harsh
level of a street. Barriers were installed in the side-roads to k
traffic on Newstreet, which was no longer a neutral border zo
the Germans started to build a two metre-high iron curtain of
in the middle of the street and the Dutch created a parallel en
all in order to prevent espionage, desertion (from the German arsmuggling and illegal trade. The Dutch inhabitants were not e
their front doors and windows on the street side.
After 1918, the borderline was precisely fixed between th
(belonging to the Dutch) and the main road, which became f
so-called flying shops appeared, housed in wooden sheds o
advantage of a profitable cross-border trade. Also, commonactivities were organised. In the 1930s, however, the econom
mate changed again. After a bypass had been constructed in 19
traffic between Herzogenrath and Aachen away from Newstre
border, most shops closed and the sheds were removed. New ten
increased after a 2.5 metre-high wall of barbed wire was create
1939 on Newstreet and placed under armed control. In May 1the entire state of the Netherlands became heavily involved i
War; the traditional cross-border contacts were blocked and inst
and buildings suffered from the (military) fighting and from se
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middle of the now widened (on the German side) and tarm
Although two passageways were provided for local cross-bosmall barrier was nicknamed the little Berlin wall, to in
separation was the embodiment of an unwanted division b
nities. The elongated Newstreet became surrounded by ne
both Kerkrade and Herzogenrath; the cities grew together,
Meanwhile, a tremendous shift took place in regional em
centuries the coal mining industry had been of major impo
in 1969 the Dutch government decided to close down th
other mines), because it was no longer of economic advan
ities had developed a preference for other resources of e
power) and their liberal economic policy was not in favour
national mining industry. In 1974, the headgear of the Dom
been a characteristic industrial landmark of Newstreet, was
more of the industrial heritage including some border-rel
was to disappear in the area. Closure was seen as synony
with the inevitable consequence of demolition. The remo
lations was aided by national and European Community
develop a new economic base and a new cultural identity, j
Cross-border commuting to Germany, which already existlater 1970s, employment was also hard to find on the other
Cross-border trade and currency exchange still provided
these economic activities were to become less profitable
because of increasing western European co-operation, sinc
Coal and Steel Community had been founded, to be foll
European Economic Community.
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often did not even require a stop. Entering another state becam
the unremarkable buildings of the customs offices.
Today it is hard to imagine how serious a border crossing was
period. On a personal note, I [Marieke Kuipers] recall my firs
Dutch-German border at Emmerich or Venlo in 1968. Tra
the Netherlands, was much more stressful than going south.
borders were very different, because the close co-operation w
started at a much earlier stage and there still remained high se
Germans. For a long time my parents had wanted to avoid dir
tion with German officials in uniform, due to their personal hu
riences, and therefore they had preferred the badly signpo
Belgium and France on the way to Switzerland rather than t
Autobahn. It was impossible not to notice that one was cross
was announced a good three kilometres ahead of the actual gat
stop was compulsory for passport control, with, additionally, a
of the interior of the car. What made the impact of the border
striking was the mere fact that one had to pass two controls a
no mans land in between. Nearing the second, German, contro
aware of entering another country, because of the different sign
guage. The intensity of control mostly to check smuggling dictable, but in most cases carried out very properly. Although
and remains the most important economic partner of the N
ical relations had been normalised again after 1945, there
slight tension when entering Germany, because it was assoc
period of the occupation of the 1940s and with the dark
Germanys eastern neighbours behind the Iron Curtain, bringinCold War nearer. But these feelings of tension faded as soon as
office was left behind, just like the moment after the monthly
signal in our hometown.
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me) their tensions and went hand in hand with a decrease
pragmatic aspect of different currencies and languages recrossing a state border. The noticeable relaxation of formal
a prelude to the Schengen Agreement.
The neighbouring towns of Kerkrade and Herzogenrath we
political and pragmatic solutions to reduce the impact of t
them. In July 1991, the two municipalities decided to createco-operation under the name Eurode. This name refers bo
place name element rode (to take root, to reclaim la
to the suffix rade and which is represented in the names o
buildings: Rolduc (Rode-le-Duc) in Kerkrade and the Rode
One of the first actions was to pull down the low wall of
the dividing line on Newstreet and to reconstruct the road The inauguration of the reconstructed road and the newly ad
1995, was attended by the two foreign ministers, to underli
European dimension. For the two local communities this
by great Eurode festivities to promote mutual understan
Additionally, various projects have begun to intensify the in
in the fields of education, language (especially the local diafire service, government and business (Technologie Park
Business Centre). One remarkable result is the Plitschard
German soil, in Merkstein/Herzogenrath, according to a D
tivities and attractions have been organised to strengthen th
the two communities, initiated by the Eurode 2000+ Foun
initiatives are clearly future-oriented, the common heritageas a tool for building a closer relationship in the bi-nationa
based on their common history, which has very long roots
The cultural heritage of the border is an important element i
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more shocking and violent because it was raised on a dividin
ran through the city, but had never been more than an invisiblspace of a few hours, on the night of 12 to 13 August 1961, th
the Russian-sector districts Mitte, Friedrichshain, Treptow,
Pankow and the others, which the three western allies had oc
of the Second World War, was turned into a deadly barrier. As t
barrier was extended and strengthened. Mined and studded with
floodlit at night, surveyed by soldiers on watchtowers and patrguard-dogs, the border between the two Germanys was as im
ingenuity could make it. Even the white sand along the death
fully raked to show any trace of footprints. A frightening bord
promising landscape.
Slightly less visible to most Berliners, the same thing existed on
West Berlin and Brandenburg. Brandenburg was part of the Rus
of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), while West Berlin
as a four-power city) belonged to the Federal Republic of Germ
the western half of the Cold War world. Travellers leaving West
pass through one of the checkpoints, at Drewitz/Dreil
Stolpe/Heiligensee, take one of three designated transit routes ac
exit into the FRG through one of the four checkpoi
Marienborn/Helmstedt, Herleshausen/Wartha or Zarrentin/Gudo
Confined to the East and prevented from even approaching th
and checkpoints at a safe distance from it, East Berliners were
row horizons, and not really aware of the borderscapes phy
Berliners, on the other hand or at least the ones who travellesiting across East Germany was like. There were no special
lowed the rules, but the experience was striking enough to
rigid with anxiety. The checkpoints were the only openings in
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people in the other queues got out and pushed the car, c
Depending on traffic and the number of lanes open, this part anything from 10 minutes to an hour. Back in the car, we ed
post a hut-like structure, rather like a tollbooth on a French
in our passports. A guard with a gun in his belt came over
tions: How many people? Where are you headed?, etc. O
stood around on the perimeter. Not a smile in sight, and we
point in wasting energy better to keep ones mouth shut.
We moved forward, alongside a covered conveyor belt, wh
ports to the hut at the other end, where we would get them b
indicating our names, car number and time of entry.
Uncover your ears! Yet again, our faces were scrutinised.
searched too inside and (using mirrors) underneath. Tha
and the toilets were off-limits.
Then we were off and, swinging left, back on the motorway
another with adverts for Wolfen films and we were in th
the Brandenburg landscape to us remote and unreal, since
ping, except at approved rest areas, was forbidden. The sp
metres per hour. The road was bad and police checks werethe GDR, the same ritual, the same questions. No, we had
hadnt bought anything at the Intershop. Once again, our f
visas were collected, probably for filing, and we left the
stretch of no mans land into the FRG back to real life i
whole thing should have got easier with practice. In fact,
was as hard as the first if not harder.
Guarding the border
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Our sources for all this are the research and interviews carrie
associations and individuals who are working to ensure that tforgotten.1 A regular part of this has been campaigning to sav
wall and the other defence works on the border, many of wh
listed as historic monuments by heritage departments in the re
Tracking the remnants
Why preserve the traces of this deadly barrier? Why remember
horror? Who wants to remember? Who wants to know? What
of these remains? What do they look like now? How much d
clear is their message? What will their emotional impact be o
the border, and people who did not?
We need to remember that the border fortifications between the
dismantled years ago, and that we celebrated the fifteenth anni
the Berlin Wall in November 2004. The mines, the anti-tank o
wire, the metal barriers and the electric fences were all cleared
the opening of the wall. The concrete slabs, with their tubula
cement, which epitomise the wall, have been taken down and
building roads. The only exceptions are the protected areas, wmetres of the wall, a piece of the death strip and a couple o
been preserved. Even that took a lot of doing. For one thing,
idents and local decision-makers who never wanted to see the
anxious to forget it as quickly as they could and their oppos
come first. Memories of imprisonment, oppression and fe
recent. To start with, in other words, there were very few peopreminded of the wall, and also very few who could imagine th
or need to remember it later. The conservationists, who have
to anticipate changes in the public mood, found themselves fac
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ally acknowledge their historical importance. What mad
mind so sharply?
Fortunately, no one today finds the remains of the wall an
tier the borderscapes between the two Germanys fright
when West Berlins Bernauer Strae, overshadowed by the
the end of the world, a place filled with menace and wrapp
Even people who remember it like that now look at it and
with a piece of the wall a harmless relic on one sid
Berlin Wall is fading, and weeds have long since invaded th
ered its white sand. At astonishing speed, the border has
scape or, more accurately, an archaeological site. As suc
target for research, and a place where the imagination can r
it is not just the largest surviving or best-preserved sect
attract attention, but also the places where the trac
Researchers, artists, residents and visitors are all welcom
wall and its era to find a place in the citys, the countrys
tive memory.
Living with the traces
Now that the vestiges of the Iron Curtain have become pr
Cold War and no longer frighten, people can live with the
aware of them. People walk their dogs on the death strip
through the city, following the line of the wall. The landsc
blocks of houses on one side and vegetation running riot
city wasteland, where the borders presence is felt through
unfettered, this seems a free zone, where the normal rules d
the former East and former West apart. Suspended between
the less hints that the future holds change. Dogs love it.
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ine what life was like when the wall was still standing, talk t
enjoy the fresh country air on the old patrol road, once closedthe border guards, who rattled up and down it in their Trabants
pleasant about the Cold War but, to learn more about it, its trac
and the remnants of the wall, can help to unlock the past.
Interpretations and meaning
Traditionally, monuments are regarded within a national fram
national territory as well as to history and art. History, howe
the borders of a state territory can change and that boundar
offices and barriers can become obsolete. Moreover, recent po
have led to an intended removal of two separating walls in t
English saying good fences make good neighbours did not
contrary, the separation was a traumatic experience and it is re
as a blessing that the borders are now open again and easy to
But does this positive development justify the total disappear
remains of the former dividing walls? However ordinary th
was, the symbolic meaning was and remains immense. A
be needed, not to create undesirable separation within one entan identity, a territory to which one belongs and where one ca
In the same way, a tangible reference, on the ground, to the hi
now cleared division is necessary for educational reasons, as
heritage of two nations and of Europe: it needs to remain visi
or in the city, just like archaeological remains showing that b
dangerous in times of acute conflict, are now de-fortified. The
change even more in the near future, but the heritage of histori
its usefulness in promoting a common understanding of the c
woven character of history and geography.
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Spapens, P., Kemenade, K. van, De grens gemarkeerd, Gren
toren aan de landzijde, Kempen Pers, Hapert, 1992.
Stenvert, R. et al., Monumenten in Nederland, Limb
Waanders/RDMZ, Zwolle/Zeist, 2003.
Zandvoort, R. van (ed.), Kerkrade en de Tweede Were
Deurenberg Kerkrade, 1994.
Websites
www.eurode.nl (Welcome in Eurode)
www.grenspalen.nl (De Grenspalen van Nederland)
www.herzogenrath.de (Herzogenrath Online)www.kerkrade.nl (Gemeente Kerkrade)
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CHAPTERIV
NEW URBAN FRONTIERS AND THE WILL TO B
John Schofield
This chapter describes the degree to which borders and
structed and used in the urban environment. It describes ho
places where they live from the other that lies beyond, an
manifests itself both to the community and to those from o
ric of these places its buildings and monuments will othough significant part in creating this distinctiveness. A
covers theoretical frameworks and relevant principles of
three case studies describe three distinct communities in
assessing: the methods by which information might be ga
new urban frontiers; the tangible and intangible heritage
their own (intangible in the sense of heritage without exprculture); and the difficulties that can arise where physical
as a replacement for the hidden or invisible boundaries tha
Constructing urban space
Segregated residential patterns within urban space will gen
tion of twin processes of choice and constraint: in some cchoose to live segregated from other groups; in other case
and discrimination may be at work (Moon and Atkinson,
ples and protocols that govern this division of urban spa
social identity and social practice in Berlin during and after the
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social identity and social practice in Berlin during and after the
been discussed (Borneman, 1992; 1998). In Belfast, peace-lineers separate many working class Protestant and Catholic ar
Jarman has described the effect these boundaries have had on t
itants (Jarman, 2002: 283-4). He notes how most residential a
time been dominated by one community, rather than being
Churches are segregated, as is the school system, workplaces
social clubs. Most people are therefore born, brought up, liveare buried among their own community. Jarman goes on:
The two working-class communities have lived relatively s
the early expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, bu
of conflict [approximately 1969-99] these patterns of segre
The families who lived in the streets that connected the Ca
the Protestant Shankill Road were in one of the most vuln
were subjected to extensive rioting and violent intimidation
communities were further polarized and a no mans land
boundary zone after people moved away from the interface
heart of their community. Initially improvised barricades or
segregated the two sides. Soon these were enhanced by m
fences and then further strengthened by a two-tier steel fen
reached some 6-7 m in height.
These barriers and physical boundaries have obvious signific
urban space and defining or imposing a sense of community.
made between the effect of boundaries at different scales, recogn
ties like those in Belfast withdraw from boundaries within citiesthose of nations and states (Wilson and Donnan, 1998: 13). The
ever, is on exploring that sense of community and cultural ident
which distinct socially- or culturally-defined groups feel attach
are so familiar Characterisation as a suite of techniques and
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are so familiar. Characterisation as a suite of techniques and
landscape (including townscape) in totality and on a broad moting informed conservation, is now widely used in the U
across Europe (see, for example, Fairclough and Rippon
forms part of this characterisation agenda, seeking out w
whom, based on well-developed principles of human geo
environmental research. In turn, social significance is an i
determining sense of place (Byrne et al., 2001; King, 200ues will result from social and personal experience of plac
large part be culturally constituted. Modern heritage the r
recognised as having value, however recent or mundane the
be (for example, Jones, 2002). And it is also now recognis
can be tangible in the form of buildings or monuments
form of customs, language and dialect, musical styles, artals and so on. All of these are relevant and related consid
understanding new urban frontiers and the will to belong
these issues will therefore precede some examples.
To begin with characterisation, the character of a place o
unique combination of factors and influences (characteri
tinctive, and set it apart from its neighbours (Fairclough, 2
can be distinctive in this way, as can parts of a town. Histo
determinant of character, alongside its contemporary use
tions and customs. Characterisation as an approach to reco
seeks to take account of them at a general level, seeing and
managing change. It recognises all areas and their characte
and special areas. Characterisation champions local divimportance of the commonplace and everyday; that these m
recognised by all, creating peoples links to history and
identity sense of place nature and the future (ibid : 30
Related to character is sense of place and belonging Sense of
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