Signal de Bougy

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Pond in the park
Signal du Bougy, 1842
View of Lake Geneva and the Savoy Alps
Transmitter

The Signal de Bougy is a 707 meter high mountain north of Lake Geneva , above Aubonne in the area of ​​the municipality of Bougy-Villars in the canton of Vaud . It has been famous for its view of the lake and the Savoy Alps since the 18th century. It is best known today for the Parc Pré-Vert Signal de Bougy , a recreation park operated by the Federation of Migros Cooperatives since 1971 .

investment

In the park there are playgrounds, slides, swings, a mini golf course, a sports area with beach volleyball, streetball and soccer fields as well as a jogging track and a rope course. There is also an animal park and a wildlife enclosure. All systems are available free of charge and are financed by the Migros Culture Percentage . The park restaurant is open from the beginning of March to the end of November and can be used for seminars. There is a golf course just west of the park . The Signal de Bougy can be reached via the A1 or by bus from Rolle train station .

On the Signal de Bougy there is a transmitter which broadcasts radio programs in DAB format ( block 12A SRG SSR F01 or SUI0007A).

history

As early as the late 18th century, the view from Signal de Bougy was widely known. In 1782 the Russian Grand Duke Pawel Petrovich, who later became Tsar Paul I , ordered a painting from Johann Ludwig Aberli while passing through Bern . According to a tradition by Heinrich Rieter from 1804, Aberli found "the view from the height above Aubonne was impracticable for Mahler because of its map-like expanse". In 1824/25 Jakob Samuel Weibel created a semicircular panorama over the western part of Lake Geneva. At that time, the owner of the Signal de Bougy was the French banker Benjamin Delessert . In 1826 he had a pine forest planted and a pavilion built, a monopteros with delicate Doric columns.

The Rolle – Gimel tram, which existed from 1898 to 1938, had a stop at Signal de Bougy. A hotel was opened here in 1902. During the negotiations to end the war in Algeria , which on 18 March 1962 in Evian-les-Bains with the signing of the Treaties of Evian ended, were the delegates of the Algerian National Liberation Front , first in Geneva housed and later at the hotel on the Signal de Bougy , whereby the Swiss government assured "complete discretion".

A few years later, the hotel was vacant and a Swedish clinic was interested in buying the building and the surrounding area. Pierre Arnold , the General Director of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives (MGB), then negotiated with the municipal and cantonal authorities. His aim was to preserve the natural landscape and make it accessible to the public. For this purpose, the MGB and the Migros Cooperatives of French-speaking Switzerland founded the Pré Vert du Signal de Bougy Foundation on July 7, 1970 . A park based on the model of the park in the Grüene in Rüschlikon was planned . The MGB received the forest and the site as a gift, and it acquired further parcels from private owners. In April 1971 the implementation of the design plan drawn up by the architect Ernst Schwarzenbach began and the hotel was demolished. The official opening took place on July 3, 1971.

The MGB invested more than 17 million francs in the design of the park, which initially covered 57 hectares . More plots have been added over the years. Today the area is 110 hectares, 30 of which are open to the public. Since 1999 there has been an 18-hole golf course immediately west of the park . The Signal de Bougy was the destination of the fourth stage of the Tour de Romandie 2011 on April 30, 2011 , winner of the individual time trial that started in Aubonne was David Zabriskie .

Web links

Commons : Signal de Bougy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Channel table for French Switzerland / Valais (DAB). UKW / TV-Arbeitskreis eV, 2019, accessed on October 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bruno Weber: Forms and functions of older panoramas . In: Swiss National Museum (Ed.): Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History . tape 42 , no. 4 . Zurich 1985, p. 257 .
  3. ^ Weber: Forms and functions of older panoramas. P. 262.
  4. ↑ Historique. Municipality of Bougy-Villars, accessed October 17, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ Les Accords d'Evian et de la fin de la guerre d'Algérie. Dodis , accessed October 17, 2019 (French).
  6. ^ Alfred A. Häsler : The Migros Adventure. The 60 year old idea . Ed .: Federation of Migros Cooperatives. Migros Presse, Zurich 1985, p. 252-253 .
  7. ↑ 1971 - Migros saves Signal de Bougy near Geneva. Migros , accessed on October 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Patricia Brambilla: Everything in the green area. Migros Magazine , June 28, 2019, accessed on October 17, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Felix Griep: Evans before the second overall victory at the Tour de Romandie - Zabriskie wins time trial. live-radsport.ch, April 30, 2011, accessed on October 17, 2019 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 '5.7 "  N , 6 ° 21' 22.5"  E ; CH1903:  five hundred and sixteen thousand eight hundred ninety  /  148751