Editing Vaalserberg (section)

==Three-country point==
[[File:2017-05 Vaalserberg 13.jpg|left|thumb|The Three-Country Point with the border post dating back to 1926]]
[[File:GemmenicherTunnel01.JPG|left|thumb|Gemmenicher Tunnel]]
The Vaalserberg is also the location of the [[tripoint]] between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and so its summit is called the ''Drielandenpunt'' ("three country point") in Dutch, ''Dreiländereck'' ("three country corner") in German and ''Trois Frontières'' ("three borders") or ''Trois Bornes'' ("three border stones") in French.
[[File:Dreiländereck Baudouinturm.JPG|150px|left|thumb|The Boudewijntoren observation tower]]
On the Belgian side, the tripoint borders the region of [[Wallonia]], including both the regular French-speaking area and the smaller [[German-speaking Community of Belgium|German-speaking area]]. The German side falls within the city limits of [[Aachen]] in the state of [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]. Between 1830 and 1919, the summit was a [[quadripoint]], also bordering [[Neutral Moresnet]], which is now part of Belgium's German-speaking area.
[[image:Moresnet.png|thumb|Historical borders before First World War. Vaalserberg is located at the quadripoint in the top central area of the map.<br>'''Legend:''' {{legend|orange|(1) Dutch [[Limburg (Netherlands)|Province of Limburg]]}} {{legend|yellow|(2) Belgian (previously [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands|United Dutch]]) [[Liège Province]]}} {{legend|lightblue|(3) [[Neutral Moresnet]]}} {{legend|lightgreen|(4) [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussian]] [[Rhineland|Rhine Province]]}}]]
[[File:2017-05 Vaalserberg 07.jpg|150px|left|thumb|The new {{ill|Wilhelminatoren, Vaals|nl|Wilhelminatoren (Vaals)|lt=Wilhelminatoren}} observation tower]]

The current Belgian-German border is not the same as the former eastern border of Moresnet with [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] but is a little more to the east. Therefore, five different borders came together at this point but never more than four at one time, except possibly between 1917 and 1920, when the border situation was unclear and disputed.

The border intersection has made the Vaalserberg a well-known tourist attraction in the Netherlands, with a {{convert|50|m}} tower on the Belgian side ({{langx|nl|Boudewijntoren}}; {{langx|fr|Tour Baudouin}}; {{langx|de|Balduin-Turm}}), opened in 1994 to replace the previous {{convert|33|m}} tower, built in 1970. It offers a grand panorama of the surrounding landscape.

{{convert|140|m}} south of the point, a railway crosses the German-Belgian border in the ''Gemmenicher Tunnel''. It is the freight-only railway between [[Tongeren]] and [[Aachen]].