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Versailles Treaty, Articles 27-30: Germany's Borders (June 28, 1919)

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7. With Poland:
From the point defined above to a point to be fixed on the ground about 2 kilometres east of Lorzendorf:
the frontier as it will be fixed in accordance with Article 88 of the present Treaty;
thence in a northerly direction to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania crosses the river Bartsch:
a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following places in Poland: Skorischau, Reichthal, Trembatschau, Kunzendorf, Schleise, Gross Kosel, Schreibersdorf. Rippin, Fürstlich-Niefken, Pawelau, Tscheschen, Konradau, Johannisdorf, Modzenowe, Bogdaj, and in Germany:
Lorzendorf, Kaulwitz, Glausche, Dalbersdorf, Reesewitz, Stradam, Gross Wartenberg, Kraschen, Neu Mittelwalde, Domaslawitz, Wedelsdorf, Tscheschen Hammer;
thence the administrative boundary of Posnania north-westwards to the point where it cuts the Rawitsch-Herrnstadt railway;
thence to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania cuts the Reisen-Tschirnau road:
a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Triebusch and Gabel and east of Saborwitz;
thence the administrative boundary of Posnania to its junction with the eastern administrative boundary of the Kreis of Fraustadt;
thence in a north-westerly direction to a point to be chosen on the road between the villages of Unruhstadt and Kopnitz:
a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Geyersdorf, Brenno, Fehlen, Altkloster, Klebel, and east of Ulbersdorf, Buchwald, Ilgen, Weine, Lupitze, Schwenten;
thence in a northerly direction to the northernmost point of Lake Chlop:
a line to be fixed on the ground following the median line of the lakes; the town and the station of Bentschen however (including the junction of the lines Schwiebus-Bentschen and Züllichau-Bentschen) remaining in Polish territory;
thence in a north-easterly direction to the point of junction of the boundaries of the Kreise of Schwerin, Birnbaum and Meseritz:
a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Betsche;
thence in a northerly direction the boundary separating the Kreise of Schwerin and Birnbaum, then in an easterly direction the northern boundary of Posnania to the point where it cuts the river Netze;
thence upstream to its confluence with the Küddow:
the course of the Netze;
thence upstream to a point to be chosen about 6 kilometres southeast of Schneidemühl:
the course of the Küddow;
thence north-eastwards to the most southern point of the reentant of the northern boundary of Posnania about 5 kilometres west of Stahren:
a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the Schneidemühl-Konitz railway in this area entirely in German territory;
thence the boundary of Posnania north-eastwards to the point of the salient it makes about 15 kilometres east of Flatow;
thence north-eastwards to the point where the river Kamionka meets the southern boundary of the Kreis of Konitz about 3 kilometres north-east of Grunau:
a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following places to Poland: Jasdrowo, Gr. Lutau, Kl. Lutau, Wittkau, and to Germany: Gr. Butzig, Cziskowo, Battrow, Böck, Grunau;
thence in a northerly direction the boundary between the Kreise of Konitz and Schlochau to the point where this boundary cuts the river Brahe;
thence to a point on the boundary of Pomerania 15 kilometres east of Rummelsburg:
a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following places in Poland: Konarzin, Kelpin, Adl. Briesen, and in Germany: Sampohl, Neuguth, Steinfort, Gr. Peterkau;
then the boundary of Pomerania in an easterly direction to its junction with the boundary between the Kreise of Konitz and Schlochau;
thence northwards the boundary between Pomerania and West Prussia to the point on the river Rheda about 3 kilometres northwest of Gohra where that river is joined by a tributary from the north-west;
thence to a point to be selected in the bend of the Piasnitz river about 1½ kilometres north-west of Warschau:
a line to be fixed on the ground;
thence this river downstream, then the median line of Lake Zarnowitz, then the old boundary of West Prussia to the Baltic Sea.

8. With Denmark:
The frontier as it will be fixed in accordance with Articles 109 to 111 of Part III, Section XII (Schleswig).

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