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Fürstentum Liechtenstein

Principality of Liechtenstein


	Just at daybreak on a 13th of July and travelling northbound on Neue Churerstrasse and entering the village of Mäls in the municipality (besser gesagt, eine Gemeinde) of Balzers in the Principality of Liechtenstein, which of course to outsiders seems like a lot of administrative subdivisions for a sovereign land with only about 37,000 people total. This is a wonderful place, and after all "No European can be in a complete exile in any part of Europe." – E.B. – Off to the right one can make out the early XII century Gutenberg Castle and further off in the distance, on the other side of the Rhenus – Rhein – Rein – Rhin – Rijn – Rhine River and so in Switzerland, the peaks of Gauschla (2,310 m) and Alvier (2,343 m). With 160 km² , this land is really not so small. Travelling in a rather straight line up to the north northeasterly border crossings into Austria, such as the one in Schellenberg Gemeinde, pictured just below, can be a 20 kilometer, even closer to 30 kilometer trek. As for having only about 37,000 people, one might recall that at around the time that Burg Gutenberg – Gutenberg Castle was being built in the XII century London probably did not have half that many inhabitants.


		On St. Georg-Straße in the Schällabärg – Schellenberg Gemeinde of northeast Liechtenstein and looking at open road, as should be the case within European Christendom, a very few meters ahead to Fresch in Austria – Österreich.


	Looking from Leichtenstein toward the west, the Rhein River, Sevelen in Switzerland and then the Swiss Alps


	Schloss Vaduz – Vaduz Castle


	... and average folks do OK too


	Kathedrale Saint Florin in Vaduz in Liechtenstein – Cathedral of St. Florin


	The Convent of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Precious Blood of Christ, founded in 1858. Das Frauenkloster von der ewigen Anbetung des Kostbaren Blutes Christi wurde 1858 von Pater Franz Sales Brunner gegründet.

Pretioso Sanguine – Kostbares Blut – Precious Blood – Πολύτιμο Αίμα – Драгоценная Кровь

Pretioso Sanguine

Kostbares Blut – Precious Blood – Πολύτιμο Αίμα – Драгоценная Кровь


	Heilige Messe





	HIER IN HINTERSCHELLENBERG ÜBERSCHRITTEN IN DER NACHT VOM 2. AUF DEN 3. MAI 1945 DIE ASYLSUCHENDEN RESTE DER «1. RUSSISCHEN NATIONALARMEE DER DEUTSCHEN WEHRMACHT» UNTER IHREM GENERALMAJOR A. HOLMSTON SMYSLOWSKY — ETWA 500 PERSONEN — IN VOLLER AUSRÜSTUNG DIE GROSSDEUTSCHE REICHSGRENZE NACH LIECHTENSTEIN. IN DER «WIRTSCHAFT ZUM LÖWEN» FANDEN DIE ERSTEN VERHANDLUNGEN STATT. DIE ZUR ASYLGEWÄHRUNG DURCH DAS FÜRSTENTUM LIECHTENSTEIN FÜHRTEN. ALS EINZIGER STAAT WIDERSETZTE SICH LIECHTENSTEIN DAMIT DEN SOWJETISCHEN AUSLIEFERUNGSFORDERUNGEN NACH ZWEIEINHALB JAHREN WURDE DEN RUSSEN DIE AUSREISE IN EIN LAND IHRER WAHL ERMÖGLICHT.

	Here in Hinterschellenberg, on the night of 2 May 1945, the asylum-seeking remainder of the "1st Russian National Army of the German Wehrmacht" under Major General A. Holmston-Smyslowsky, with about 500 fully equipped men, crossed the border of the Greater German Reich into Liechtenstein. The first negotiations took place in the "Wirtschaft zum Löwen" tavern, which led to the granting of asylum by the Principality of Liechtenstein. It was the only country which resisted the Soviet Union's extradition demands. After two and a half years, the Russians were free to leave for a country of their choice.

	Здесь, в Хинтершелленберге, в ночь на 2 мая 1945 года в поисках убежища пересекли границу между Великим Германским рейхом и Лихтенштейном остатки 1-й Русской национальной армии германского вермахта под началом генерал-майора А. Хольмстона-Смысловского в количестве около 500 человек с полным вооружением. Первые переговоры состоялись в трактире «Wirtschaft Zum Löwen», приведшие к предоставлению убежища в Княжестве Лихтенштейн. Тем самым Лихтенштейн стал единственным государством, противостоявшим советским требованиям об экстрадиции. Спустя два с половиной года русским была предоставлена возможность выезда в страны по собственному выбору.


	Gedenktafel in Hinter-Schellenberg in Liechtensteinin der nahe der Taverne "Wirtschaft zum Löwen"



	On St. Georg-Straße in the Schällabärg – Schellenberg Gemeinde of northeast Liechtenstein and looking at open road, as should be the case within European Christendom, a very few meters ahead to Fresch in Austria – Österreich.

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