This Three-Country Point, known in German as Dreiländerpunkt, used to be a four country border between 1830 and 1919. This happened because Neutral Moresnet used to exist in the as well. If you are asking yourself what is this place, I’m here to explain it to you.

So, Neutral Moresnet was a small Condominium between what used to be the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Prussia. It came to be after the fall of Napoleon, when the Congress of Vienna was redrawing the map of Europe, this is where some problems started to appear. On the area that was later called Neutral Moresnet, a zinc mine used to exist and none of the two kingdoms wanted to give up control over it. This lasted until after the First World War when the territory was annexed by Belgium.

You can still see some traces of this small territory on the name of the road that leads to the Three Country Border in Netherlands is still called Viergrenzenweg, four borders road in dutch.