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Upper Vosges Mountains map From a geological point of view, a graben at the beginning of the Paleogene period caused the formation of Alsace and the uplift of the bedrock plates of the Vosges, in eastern France , and those in the Black Forest , in Germany .
The Northern Vosges Massif consists of a monoclinal tilted to the northeast and is mainly composed of Buntsandstein sandstone (colorful sandstone dating from 245 to 230 million years ago). [2] This sandstone is visible on the high points and takes the form of rugged rocks and stacks (a characteristic utilized in the construction of numerous ...
Vosges (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a department in the Grand Est region, Northeastern France. It covers part of the Vosges mountain range, after which it is named. Vosges consists of three arrondissements , 17 cantons and 507 communes , [ 3 ] including Domrémy-la-Pucelle , where Joan of Arc was born. [ 4 ]
The Wasgau (German: Wasgau, French: Vasgovie) is a Franco-German hill range in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the French departments of Bas-Rhin and Moselle.It is formed from the southern part of the Palatine Forest and the northern part of the Vosges mountains, and extends from the River Queich in the north over the French border to the Col de Saverne in the south.
The new border between France and Germany mainly followed the geo-linguistic divide between French and German dialects, except in a few valleys of the Alsatian side of the Vosges mountains, the city of Metz and its region and in the area of Château-Salins (formerly in the Meurthe département), which were annexed by Germany although most ...
Location of the biosphere reserve in Germany and France. The Franco-German Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve (German: Biosphärenreservat Pfälzerwald-Nordvogesen, French: Réserve de biosphère transfrontalière des Vosges du Nord-Forêt palatine) was created in 1998 as the first UNESCO trans-boundary biosphere reserve in Europe.
Map of arrondissements of the Vosges department between 2017 and 2024. The 3 arrondissements of the Vosges department are: [1] [2] Arrondissement of Épinal, (prefecture of the Vosges department: Épinal) with 140 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 187,993 in 2021.
Lorraine is the only French region to have borders with three other countries: Belgium , Luxembourg, and Germany (Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate). It also borders the French regions of Franche-Comté , Champagne-Ardenne , which were at times part of historical Lorraine ( Lotharingia ), and Alsace .