Berra (mountain)
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| height | 1719 m above sea level M. | |
| location | 15 km south of Freiburg im Üechtland , Canton of Friborg , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Freiburg Pre-Alps | |
| Dominance | 5.66 km → Col du Chamois | |
| Notch height | 308 m ↓ La Balisa | |
| Coordinates | 580 508 / 169 464 | |
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| rock | Flysch rock with sandstone and marl banks | |
The Berra ( French La Berra ), also often referred to as La Berra in German-speaking Switzerland , is a 1719 m high mountain peak in the Friborg Prealps in Switzerland , around 15 km south of the city of Friborg .
geography
The municipal boundary of La Roche and Val-de-Charmey runs over the summit . The mountain name is derived from the vulgar Latin berria (hardly or not cultivated land).
The summit of the Berra forms a treeless, grassy dome in a flat pyramid shape. Three mountain ridges run from this summit: one to the east, one to the north to the Cousimbert and on to the Chrüzflue and one to the southwest to the Vanil des Cours . To the west, the Berra falls to the Saane Valley , where the river is dammed up to Lake Gruyère . To the north-east of the summit begins the headwaters of the Ärgera with the Plasselbschlund , and to the south the wide basin of the Javro opens up , in which the Carthusian monastery of La Valsainte is located.
The height of the Berra as well as its north and east flanks are occupied by extensive alpine meadows , while the western slope is densely forested. The mountain, which can be seen from afar, serves as a first-order triangulation point for the national survey of Switzerland .
The Berra is about as high as the highest mountain in the Jura, the Crêt de la Neige , which has been one meter higher at 1720 meters since the remeasurement in 2003.
geology
From a geological and tectonic point of view, the Berra area belongs to the Préalpes romandes , a large-area thrust mass of Penninic sediments, which is deposited as a cliff on Swiss sediments. The Berra consists of flysch rocks from the Gurnigel cover , in which sandstone and marl banks alternate.
tourism
Together with the neighboring ridges, the Berra is a summer hiking area and a lookout point. The view extends over the Swiss Zealand to the Jura ridge . Lake Gruyère and the silhouette of Freiburg can be seen in the foreground. On the western slope of the ridge, above La Roche, there is also a winter sports area with several ski lifts .