Last Tuesday Catharina Meessen died at the tender age of 106.
Link (sorry. Dutch only).
Catharina was not an important person. In fact, I would be surprised if she ever really travelled far from the village where she was born and where she died.
But Catharina was unique in Europe in that her birth certificate mentions her being stateless and born in Neutral Moresnet. A tiny sliver of land, neither Belgian nor German, but lying between these two countries.
With her passing, the existence of this remarkable place, Neutral Moresnet, passes into the realm of history and away from living memory.
Link (sorry. Dutch only).
Catharina was not an important person. In fact, I would be surprised if she ever really travelled far from the village where she was born and where she died.
But Catharina was unique in Europe in that her birth certificate mentions her being stateless and born in Neutral Moresnet. A tiny sliver of land, neither Belgian nor German, but lying between these two countries.
With her passing, the existence of this remarkable place, Neutral Moresnet, passes into the realm of history and away from living memory.
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