Risoux
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 View of the Lac de Joux and Lac de Brenet, on the right the wooded chain of the Risoux |
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| height | 1419 m | |
| location | Canton of Vaud , Switzerland and Franche-Comté , France | |
| Mountains | law | |
| Dominance | 6.7 km → Mont Tendre | |
| Notch height | 213 m ↓ southwest. Haut Soulier Chalet (F) | |
| Coordinates , ( CH ) | 46 ° 37 '14 " N , 6 ° 10' 57" O ( 503 782 / 164018 ) | |
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The Risoux forms a wooded mountain range in the Jura , which extends in a south-west-north-east direction in accordance with the general course of the folded Jura in this area. The border between France and Switzerland runs over the ridge .
location
The ridge is in the southeast through the Vallée de Joux with the Orbe and the Lac de Joux , in the northeast through a slight valley depression against the Mont d'Or , in the northwest through the upper reaches of the Doubs and Saine and in the southwest through the deep cut of the valley limited by Morez .
geography
The Risoux chain is over 30 km long and up to 10 km wide. It is divided into Petit Risoux in the northeast with the highest elevation ( Le Gros Crêt , 1419 m ), Grand Risoux in the central part (up to 1378 m ) and in Forêt du Risoux (in the Crêt à la Dame , 1311 m ) in the southwest, all the way up lying on French soil. Belonging to the same chain system but separated from the Risoux by a fracture zone, the Mont Noir (up to 1274 m ) joins in the west . This fracture zone is formed as a valley basin ( Combe des Cives ), in which there are short rivers and two small lakes (Lac de Bellefontaine and Lac des Mortes). However, their water seeps away in various places in the fracture system of the porous limestone subsoil.
The entire ridge including Mont Noir is almost continuously forested and with an area of 120 km² is the largest forest area in the Jura. Mighty spruce, fir, beech and sycamore maple formed an impenetrable wilderness between the Vallée de Joux and the Franche-Comté in earlier times . Until the end of the 18th century, bears and wolves still lived in this jungle (it looks like the wolf is about to return today). Only on the French side of the ridge are there a few larger clearings. The only vantage point on the ridge is the Roche Champion ( 1327 m ., Also known as the Swiss Throne ), a rock pulpit about 100 m beyond the Swiss border above the village of Chapelle-des-Bois . Except for this farming village in the valley between Risoux and Mont Noir, the whole chain is uninhabited.
escape route
During the Second World War, an escape route led from Chapelle-des-Bois, where the mother of Victoria Cordier, a member of the Resistance, lived, via the Gy de l'Echelle path carved into the rock to the meeting point on the Swiss side in the logger's hut Hôtel d'Italie . There the Jewish refugee children of Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet were picked up by their father, the forest inspector Henri-Joseph Piguet, to be brought to Zurich to the refugee pastor Vogt .
literature
- L. Reymond, Notice historique sur la forêt du Risoux , 1975
- N. Zaric, La forêt du Grand Risoud , 1991
- Victoria Cordier: Ce que je n'oublierai jamais. Journal d'une resident comtoise . Editions du Belvédère, Pontarlier , Fleurier 2011, ISBN 978-2884191289 .
