Jolimont
| Jolimont | ||
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 Lake Biel with Jolimont as a table hill on the horizon |
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| height | 603 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton of Bern , Switzerland | |
| Dominance | 4.03 km → Grand Chaumont | |
| Notch height | 160 m ↓ underwater canal | |
| Coordinates | 571 333 / 208307 | |
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| Type | Molasse hill | |
The Jolimont is an upstream of the Jura 603 m above sea level. M. high molasse hill in the canton of Bern southwest of Lake Biel . Despite belonging completely to the German-speaking area, the Jolimont does not have a German name.
geography
The Jolimont is bounded in the south by the Grosse Moos , in the west and northwest by the Zihl Canal and Grissemoos plain , in the northeast by Lake Biel, and in the east it is separated from the Schaltrain by a depression . The communities of Gampelen , Gals , Tschugg and Erlach BE are at the foot of the hill . The Erlach Castle is located on the north-eastern foothills of the Jolimont. Most of the mountain, which has steep slopes but a flat crest, is forested.
Viticulture is practiced on the sun-exposed south and south-east slopes ( Chasselas , Perdrix blanche , Chardonnay ). The Jolimontgut , a former mountain farm of the Sankt Johannsen Abbey, is located on a cleared island on the plateau . Its late Gothic mansion with a round tower dates from the 16th and 17th centuries. Today the estate is used for musical events.
geology
Geologically, the upper part of the Jolimont consists of sandstones , some of which contain fossilized shells and shark teeth, and its lower part consists of colorful marls .
On its high plateau, three mighty erratic blocks , called Tüfelsburdi (devil's burden) , druid stones or heath stones, which originally come from the Val de Bagnes , were deposited by the ice age Rhone glacier . The impressive group of foundlings with a volume of around 400 m³ was placed under protection as early as 1872.
history
Witnesses to the settlement of the area around the Jolimont in the middle Bronze Age are cemeteries on the mountain. The age of a bronze sword and other pieces of jewelry found is about 1400 BC. Estimated.
During the First ( Fortification Murten ) and Second World War , extensive bunkers and fortifications were built on the Jolimont, some of which can be visited.
literature
- Jolimont - A walk through history and the present. Erlach municipality ( download ; PDF; 270 kB)
Web links
- Felix Müller: Jolimont. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .