Re: Hohenzollern From: mad-2@kub.nl (C. Wekx) Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 12:48:31 +0000 In article <1583@tuegate.tue.nl> wsbusr@eutws1.win.tue.nl (Boudewijn Wayers) writes: > Yesterday, I read article #23 of the constitution of the Federal Republic > of Germany, which says that "this constitution is valid in the states > of Niedersachsen, Greater-Berlin, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, ..., > Wuertemberg-Baden, and Wuertemberg-Hohenzollern. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I tried to look this up in my atlas, but I could find no german federal > state by the name of Wuertemberg-Hohenzollern. Well, perhaps you should look at a few other interesting articles as well. For instance, article #118 of the 'Grundgesetz' (you can't translate this with 'constitution', by the way, since Germany hasn't got one): "Die Neugliederung in dem die Laender Baden, Wuerttemberg-Baden und Wuerttemberg-Hohenzollern umfassenden Gebiete kann abweichend von den Vorschriften des Artikels 29 durch Vereinbarung der beteiligten Laender erfolgen." (Article #29 is the procedure to follow in case of a unification of states) And that's what happened! The three states agreed on unification, and a new state by the name of Baden-Wuertemberg was created. --- "Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin!" Jim Morrison Constantijn Wekx email should be addressed to: cwekx@htikub5.bitnet Up