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The Vaalserberg ("Mount of Vaals") is a hill with a height of 322.7 metres (1,059 ft) above NAP and the highest point in mainland Netherlands. The Vaalserberg is located in the province of Limburg, at the south-easternmost edge of the country in the municipality of Vaals, near the eponymous town, some three kilometres west of Aachen. Before 10 October 2010, the Vaalserberg was the highest point in the Netherlands, until upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles when Mount Scenery on Saba (the highest point in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) became part of the Netherlands. ==Three-Country Point== The Vaalserberg is also the location of the tripoint between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and its summit is therefore referred to as ''Drielandenpunt'' ("Three-Country Point") in Dutch, or ''Dreiländereck'' ("Three-Country Corner") in German, or ''Trois Frontières'' ("Three Borders") in French. Between 1830 and 1919, the summit was a quadripoint, also bordering Neutral Moresnet. The current Belgian-German-border is not the same as the former eastern border of Moresnet with Prussia; it lies a little more to the east. Therefore, five different borders came together at this point, however never more than four at one time - except possibly for the period 1917-1920, when the border situation was unclear and disputed. This border intersection has made the Vaalserberg a well-known tourist attraction in the Netherlands with a tower on the Belgian side ((オランダ語:Boudewijntoren); (フランス語:Tour Baudouin)) offering a grand panorama of the surrounding landscape. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vaalserberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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