Jor (Montreux)

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Jor
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of VaudCanton of Vaud Vaud (VD)
District : Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut
Municipality : Montreuxi2 w1
Coordinates : 563441  /  145082 coordinates: 46 ° 27 '22 "  N , 6 ° 57' 46"  O ; CH1903:  563441  /  145082
Height : 1174  m above sea level M.
Aerial view of Jor

Aerial view of Jor
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Jor (Montreux) (Switzerland)
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Jor is a place in the municipality of Montreux in the Swiss canton of Vaud at an altitude of 1174 m.

geography

The few buildings in a single location are above Les Avants northeast of Montreux on the road to Col de Jaman . Jor has a stop on the Montreux – Bernese Oberland Railway (MOB) on the Montreux – Lenk line in the Simmental . It is located directly west of the Jaman tunnel at 1084 m. The Baye de Montreux stream rises above Jor and is crossed by the railway on a bridge between the Jaman tunnel and the bus stop.

The 1910 Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland lists 37 inhabitants. Until 1919, Jor was shown on the national map as Chargiau , which describes a suitable place for loading carts .

  • Jor stop

  • Video of the Jor stop

  • Aerial view of Jor with the bus stop

Web links

Commons : Jor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jor (VD) - Montreux , on map.geo.admin.ch , in a historical view until 1919 Chargiau, from 1920 Jor, height information based on a map from 2014.
  2. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 6: Tavetsch Val - Zybachsplatte, supplement - last additions - appendix . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1910, p. 565, keyword Jor   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  3. ^ Henri Jaccard: Essai de toponomie , G. Bridel, Lausanne 1906, p. 100 .