Hohneck
Third top of the massive of the Vosges with 1 364 meters of altitude, the Hohneck dominates the watershed which separates the Alsace from the Lorraine. A nearby balloon, located at 1,5 km in the east and culminating with 1 288 meters, is called Petit Hohneck .
Its territory is divided between the communes of the Bresse in the the Vosges, of Metzeral and Stosswihr in the Haut-Rhin. The softest slopes accommodate in summer the herds of Vosgean cows. The solid mass of Hohneck also shelters some herds of Chamois.
One can reach it starting from the Route of the Peaks by a motor-road without exit. The pedestrian and traffic is regulated there, in a preoccupation with a safeguarding of the site. The path connecting Hohneck to Small Hohneck overhangs the lake of the Schiessrothried.
The western slope (Lorraine) of the top is soft inclined and corresponds to old the Pénéplaine hercynienne heightened by the rising of the the Alps at the tertiary era . It is very sprinkled, receiving all water of the oceanic winds. All the rivers are thrown in the basin of the the Moselle.
The slope is (Alsatian), very precipice, presents an quasi-alpine character. It corresponds to the line of the Rhenish trough fault , due to the same rising of the Alps. Moreover, circuses of glacial origin were dug at the era Quaternaire, offering a site favourable with the lakes and the Tourbière S. The rivers are thrown in the Ill.
This passage was until the 19th century the principal route transportation between Gérardmer and Munster, before work does not arrange the Col of Schlucht. For this reason, one discovers ruins of constructions military dating from the Guerre Thirty Year old and re-used at the time of the Napoleonean campaigns.
In the prolongation of the line of Tram to vapor Gérardmer - Retournemer, a line of electric Tram Retournemer - Schlucht - Hohneck, brought into service the July 25th 1897, was exploited until the August 28th 1939, in spite of a dramatic accident which made four dead the July 14th 1923. It contributed to the tourist fame of the site.
Alsatian side, a line of Tram to Toothed rack Munster - Schlucht functioned of 1907 with 1914. Located in territory then Prussian, it was destroyed by the war. In spite of a will to rebuild it to review passage of it which could have brought the tourists coming from the valley of the Fecht, its start-up forever take place.
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