Emosson
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Valais (VS)
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| District : | Saint-Maurice | |
| Municipal municipality : | Finhaut | |
| Coordinates : | 559 939 / 102175 | |
| Height : | 1785 m above sea level M. | |
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Emosson was an alp in the Barberine valley in the municipality of Finhaut in Valais . In the 1970s, the valley was flooded by Lac d'Emosson .
geography
The summer pasture was 1785 meters above sea level in a valley with a "swampy bottom" at the confluence of the Nant de Drance and Nant de Folly streams to the Barberine. To the north the Bel Oiseau rises and to the east the path leads over the pass from La Gueulaz to Finhaut. The alp was owned by the Finhaut community.
geology
The Emosson Plain was probably an old lake basin that had been filled in by the sediments of the torrents that were rich in thrust. Archosaur footprints that are 240 million years old have been found.
history
Old times
The history of Emosson is marked by long-standing arguments. In the so-called Battle of Emosson in 1323, the people of Finhaut and Salvan, who were under the abbots of Saint-Maurice , defeated their neighbors from Faucigny , under the leadership of Guillaume de Thoire , from the high valley , who were under Savoyard authority . Until the dam was built, the battle chapel and the annual foot pilgrimage on the day of the year reminded of this.
In the course of the separation of Finhaut from Salvan in 1649, Emosson was awarded Finhaut in 1697, while the Barberine alpine pasture above remained in the possession of Salvan.
New times
From 1920 onwards, the Alp was made accessible from Le Châtelard by means of a funicular railway followed by a 75-cm-gauge field railway and an aerial cableway in order to create a gravity dam directly behind the alpine huts on the step between Emosson and Alp Barberine . This reservoir of the Swiss Federal Railways was used to electrify the Simplon line .
Cable car and steam trains disappeared again after construction. The route of the railway became a rhododendron- lined hiking trail.
The arch dam was built by Emosson from 1963 to 1974. The Emosson reservoir floods both the Alp Emosson and the Barberine Lake from 1925. The storage volume has increased more than fivefold.
A year later, a tourist railway Parc d'Attractions du Châtelard operated with accumulator locomotives was built on the route of the construction railway from the 1920s up to the foot of the new dam.
See also
Web links
- Electricité d'Emosson SA (reservoir operating company)
Individual evidence
- ^ National map of Switzerland , sheet 1324 «Barberine», data status 1965. Online at map.geo.admin.ch: Time travel
- ^ A b Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2: Emmenholz - Kraialppass . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1904, p. 7, keyword Emosson ( scan of the lexicon page ).
- ↑ continents_in_bewegung_sequence_1_ausschnitt. Retrieved June 23, 2012 .
- ↑ André Décaillet: Finhaut. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Documentary in the exhibition of the SBB power plant in Le Châtelard.