Mont Racine
| Mont Racine | ||
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| height | 1439 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton of Neuchâtel , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | law | |
| Dominance | 12 km → Soliat | |
| Notch height | 319 m ↓ Les Savagnières lingerie | |
| Coordinates | 552 673 / 208035 | |
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The Mont Racine is a 1439 m above sea level. M. high mountain peak in the Swiss Jura . The summit is on the parish of Val-de-Ruz (until 2012 Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane ) in the canton of Neuchâtel , around 9 km west-northwest of the city of Neuchâtel .
geography
The Mont Racine is part of a Jura chain that extends in a south-west-north-east direction from the Solmon via the Tête de Ran , the Vue des Alpes and the Mont d'Amin to the Chasseral . The ridge is bounded in the east by the valley basin of the Val de Ruz , in the south by the La Tourne pass and the valley of the Mauvaise Combe and in the west by the basin of the Vallée des Ponts . To the northeast, the ridge settles at an average altitude of 1400 m above sea level. M. to the Tête de Ran.
On the chain of Mont Racine there are extensive Jura high pastures with mighty spruce trees that stand either individually or in groups; steeper slopes are wooded. Mont Racine is a hiking area and a lookout point near the cities of Neuchâtel and La Chaux-de-Fonds .
geology
In structural geological terms, Mont Racine forms an anticline of the Jura folds . In the course of time, the vault, made of competent limestone from the younger Jurassic period , was attacked at weak points by erosion and partially removed. This exposed the underlying softer rock layers. The ridge of Mont Racine, which slopes steeply to the west, represents the larger eastern limb of the anticline today. At a distance of about 500 meters, the wooded western limb ( Côtes de Marmoud ) is parallel to Mont Racine , with the meadows of the Grande in between Racine.
history
In 1963, a large area around Pradières northeast of the summit of Mont Racine was bought by the Swiss Army, which set up a firing range here. In March 1966, the electorate of the canton of Neuchâtel accepted an initiative to protect the Jura Mountains , whereupon the military had to undertake not to conduct any target practice during the weekends and summer holidays. Today the natural landscape on the Jura ridge is threatened again due to the planning of a wind power plant.