How did you become aware of this particular border change?
I was browsing some of the local landholdings in both early maps and modern ones. My family came from that general area. I noted that in my antique netherlands land atlas, that bit belonged to NL, while in the modern land atlas, it was german.
I’m a map geek, what can I say? 
I think you can probably delete the word “map” from that sentence, or replace it with any of a wide variety of other words, and still have a true statement.
:dubious:
As in, you’re also a maritime geek, and a history geek, and a Tolkien geek, and a science fiction geek, and just a geek in general. I hope you didn’t take that as an insult?
A more precise translation (not literal) is that the source states that in order to build that highway (one I use kind of a lot btw), some pieces of land needed to be traded between Germany and the Netherlands. An interesting point, and public secret, is that the Netherlands got the short end of the stick in these trades (literally: the Germans got the longer part). Then they mention that those animals are now cut off from the Netherlands. There is no real explanation on why this is relevant for any of the previous statements.
Just don’t call me no pencil-necked geek! 
(Keukens means kitchen or cuisine)
As the stork flies, that bit of neo-Germany is less than 10 miles from the Mercotan ancestral home! The Netherlands best not give that up!!
Thanks for the more nuanced translation, polar bear!
Ok, we will cross that one off the list. But it is a long list! 
In the land of geeks, that is a compliment (I hope).
And then there’s Canusa Street.
I have got to visit that street someday.
My Nexus card should make the visit a little easier . . .
Check the border between Belgium and the Netherlands in Baarle-Hertog and despair…
An oldie but a goodie, I’ve done a walk thru that area via Google streetview before.
What did they do there, ask each and every individual homeowner which country they wanted to be part of?
There’s a long, involved history, but it comes down to two feudal landlords who ended up with interleaved holdings due to reasons too picayune to remember. And no one felt like smoothing the border out when they separated Netherlands and Belgium, so they ended up with that hodgepodge.