Col de Bussang

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Col de Bussang
Col de Bussang (east side)

Col de Bussang (east side)

Compass direction west east
Pass height 731  m
Department Vosges Haut-Rhin
Watershed MoselleRhine Seebach → ThurRhine
Valley locations Bussang Urbès
expansion N66
Mountains Vosges
profile
Ø pitch 3.4% (131 m / 3.9 km) 4.7% (279 m / 5.9 km)
Max. Incline 4.6% 6.8%
Map (Haut-Rhin)
Col de Bussang (Haut-Rhin)
Col de Bussang
Coordinates 47 ° 53 '22 "  N , 6 ° 53' 47"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '22 "  N , 6 ° 53' 47"  E
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The Col de Bussang (Eng .: Büssingpass ) is a 731 m high pass in the Vosges .

The pass is located 8.4 km northeast of Ballon d'Alsace between the municipalities of Bussang in the west and Urbès in the east. The border between Lorraine and Alsace runs 200 meters west of the pass . National road 66 ( European route 512 from Remiremont to Mulhouse ) leads over the pass .

The pass was originally crossed by a crest tunnel. Retreating German soldiers blew up the tunnel towards the end of the Second World War . Remnants of the tunnel can still be seen on the site of a hotel, which is about 100 meters east of the pass. From the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 until the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the pass was the border between the German Empire and France with customs stations on both sides of the tunnel. The customs buildings are no longer there.

In the 1930s , an eight-kilometer base tunnel was planned as an extension of the Épinal-Bussang railway line to connect this line with the Lutterbach-Kruth line. After driving four kilometers of the route had already been carried out, the project was discontinued. During the Second World War, the German Wehrmacht equipped the tunnel entrance with a bulwark. The tunnel section, which had only been partially completed until then, was converted into an armaments factory, in which mainly forced laborers from the Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camps had to work.

The Moselle rises on the west side of the pass .

literature

  • Roland Siegloff, Thierry Monasse: In the name of Route 66 - Drei Reisen in Europa / Au nom de la Route 66 - Trois voyages en Europe , 2013

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