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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. From a scientific view, the Vosges Mountains are not mountains as such, but rather the ...
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 ...
Tellure is a museum and mining park showcasing the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines and Val d'Argent [] mines, and a partner in the annual Mineral & Gem event. The Tellure silver mine is the largest manmade cavern in the Vosges mountains, and provides an opportunity to discover the Saint-Jean-Engelsbourg mine, which has been in operation since the 16th century.
It was founded about 690 by Adalrich, Duke of Alsace for his daughter, Odile, who was its first abbess. [2] Saint Eugénie d'Alsace (died 735) was its second abbess. On the eastern slope of the Mont Sainte-Odile the first abbess built a hospice called Niedermünster or Nieder-Hohenburg, which afterwards became a house for ladies of nobility until it was destroyed by lightning in 1572.
Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the villages of Natzweiler and Struthof in the Gau Baden-Alsace of Germany, on territory annexed from France on a de facto basis in 1940. It operated from 21 May 1941 to September 1944, and was the only concentration camp established by the Germans in the ...
The mountain enters recorded history during the Roman times; a fortress was supposedly destroyed by the Vandals in 407. [2] In the second half of the 9th century, when Vikings attacked the Low Countries , which had been recently converted to Christianity and were governed from Utrecht , the Utrecht bishops went into exile and stayed for a while ...
The commune is positioned on undulating lower slopes of the Vosges Mountains. The settlements in the commune are dispersed across various hamlets that include l'Orme, le Bout du Dessus, le Bout du Milieu and le Bout du Dessous. The commune is crossed by the little River Mossoux, a tributary of the Mortagne which itself feeds into the Meurthe ...
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 ]