Grammont (mountain)

Grammont
Grammont (left) as seen from Montreux
height	2172  m
location	Valais , Switzerland
Mountains	Chablais massif in the Savoy Alps
Dominance	0.67 km →  Les Jumelles
Notch height	201 m ↓  Col des Crosses
Coordinates	552 471  /  134201 coordinates: 46 ° 21 '27 "  N , 6 ° 49' 16"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred fifty-two thousand four hundred seventy-one  /  134201
Normal way	Hike

Ferdinand Hodler - The Grammont, 1906

The Grammont is a mountain in the Swiss canton of Valais . The 2172 meter high summit is part of the Chablais massif in the Savoy Alps . Its north flank drops steeply to the French- Swiss border towns of Saint-Gingolph on the shores of Lake Geneva . To the southeast is Lac de Tanay , a lake that belongs to the municipality of Vouvry .

history

In 1906 a license application for the construction of a rack railway from Saint-Gingolph in Switzerland to the Grammont was submitted to the federal authorities. Stops were planned on the slopes of Vignoles (optional), in Fritaz and at 2080 meters on the summit of Grammont. The maximum gradient of the 7,140-meter-long route with a track width of 80 cm would have been 32 percent; a rack according to the punch system was provided as the drive . An extension to the neighboring Cornettes de Bise was planned. The deadline for submitting technical and financial submissions was extended for the last time in 1913. The railway was not built.

During the Second World War , on July 13, 1943, an aircraft of the British Royal Air Force crashed on the northeast slope above Le Bouveret at an altitude of 900 meters on the slopes of the Grammont. Seven people were killed. The Swiss Army announced that its air defense had shot down the aircraft. The dead were buried in the English cemetery in Vevey .

Web links

Commons : Le Grammont  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Message from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly regarding the concession of a rack railway from St. Gingolph to the Grammont, possibly to the Cornettes de Bise. (From November 23, 1906.). Bundesblatt , 1906, Volume 5, Issue 48, Pages 741-750.
2. ↑ Message from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly regarding the extension of the deadline for a rack railway from St. Gingolph to the Grammont, possibly to the Cornettes de Bise. (From January 24, 1913.). Bundesblatt , 1913, Volume 1. Issue 04, Pages 188-189.
3. ↑ Nuit d'Alerte ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Gazette de Lausanne , July 14, 1943, page 2.  
4. ↑ Badge Crew Le Bouveret, Switzerland, 12/13 July 1943 , rafinfo.org.uk, accessed on August 19, 2013.
5. ↑ night flights , warbird.ch.
6. ↑ July 13, 1943 00:55 / Le Bouveret , raf.durham-light-infantry.ch.
7. ↑ Les bombardies anglais ont été abattus par notre DCA ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Gazette de Lausanne , July 17, 1943, page 1.  
8. ↑ Les obsèques des aviateurs anglais à Vevey ( Memento of the original of December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Gazette de Lausanne , July 16, 1943, page 2.