Flaine
Coordinates: 46 ° 0 ' N , 6 ° 42' E
Flaine is a winter sports resort in the Haute-Savoie department in the French Alps . The retort village is located in the area of the two municipalities Magland and Arâches at over 1,600 meters above sea level.
history
The pristine area of Flaine was discovered for winter sports in 1959 by the geophysicist Éric Boissonnas and the Swiss architect Gérard Chervaz. With the design of the superstructure project was Marcel Breuer , an architect who in the twenties at the Bauhaus had taught commissioned.
In 1961 the master plan for the site was presented and the access road was built. A first construction phase was built between 1961 and 1968, a second from 1974 to 1976. The place was opened at Christmas 1968. Flaine had the first snow cannons in the Alps.
architecture
An important guideline for the architecture was its integration into the natural topography. The buildings were built from precast concrete. The Hotel La Flaine , which towers spectacularly over a rock face, is particularly well-known . The place was included in the list of monuments historiques and is a listed building.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Philippe Meier: A city in the mountains. heimatschutz.ch, 2009, accessed on November 29, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Arnt Cobbes: Marcel Breuer , Taschen Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8365-4469-6 .
- ↑ Alexander Hosch: Ski Utopia Flaine: Modernism with Shot. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 10, 2017, accessed on January 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Carte des Monuments Historiques français: Hôtel Le Flaine, station de Flaine à Arâches, accessed on November 29, 2015