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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 ...
View of the Vosges balloons from the Alsace plain [].. The Vosges massif is a mountain range in the northeastern region of France.The massif spans two regions.The region is situated in the northeastern part of France, spanning two administrative regions, Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
The route (now D148) continues south via the Col de Louchbach (978 m (3,209 ft)) to the Col du Calvaire (1,134 m (3,720 ft)), where it enters the department of Vosges. The route (now D61) then passes the Gazon du Faing (1,303 m (4,275 ft)) from where there is a panoramic view stretching to the Black Forest across the Rhine valley in Germany and ...
The scarplands west of the Rhine and the Palatine Forest (17) The Palatinate Forest, together with the Vosges south of the French border, from which it has no morphological separation, is part of a single central upland region of about 8,000 km 2 in area, that runs from the Börrstadt Basin (a line from Winnweiler via Börrstadt and Göllheim) to the Burgundian Gate (on the line Belfort ...
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.
The Vosges and Jura coal mining basins are an area of France located between two mountain ranges, that has been shaped by four centuries of coal extraction from the 16th century to the 20th century. It includes four coal basins in three geographic locations.
Mountains passes of Vosges, a mountain range located in the French regions of Alsace, Franche-Comté and Lorraine. Pages in category "Mountain passes of the Vosges" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The Vosges department then had an area of 6,127 km 2 (2,366 sq mi), which it kept until 1871. In 1794, Vosges was the site of a major battle between the forces of Revolutionary France and the Allied Coalition.