Ballon d'Alsace

The Col du Ballon d'Alsace (1,178 m (3,865 ft)) is a mountain pass situated close to the summit of the Ballon d'Alsace (1,247 m (4,091 ft)) in the Vosges Mountains of France. It connects Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle (Vosges) with Masevaux (Haut-Rhin) and Belfort. The Ballon d'Alsace was the first official mountain climb in the Tour de France on 11 July 1905 although the tour had crossed the slightly lower Col de la République (1,161 m (3,809 ft)) in each of the previous two years. The first rider to the top of the Ballon was René Pottier, with the stage being won by Hippolyte Aucouturier. Stage 9 of the 2005 Tour crossed this pass on the centenary of the original climb.

Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ mɔʁis syʁ mɔzɛl] ; literally "Saint-Maurice on Moselle") is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

The Théâtre du peuple is a theater located in Bussang, France, built in 1895 by Maurice Pottecher.The theatre was added to the list of historical monuments in 1975 and is always in activity, putting on a new performance each year. Performances take place on every Sunday of July and August. The Théâtre du peuple is constructed entirely of wood and can seat up to 1,200 people. The Théâtre du peuple was the first people's theatre to be established in France after the Revolution. Originally it was an open-air theatre, in which Pottecher staged folk and morality plays, often performed by locals in dialect. Its low costs, low ticket prices and the offer of a free performance per season proved a successful formula for Sunday-afternoon theatre. Pottecher used his success as a platform to launch a people's theatre campaign (soon taken up by Nobel-prize winner Romain Rolland). The proscenium arch of the theatre bore the motto "Through Art for Humanity". Pottecher worked at the Théâtre du Peuple until his death in 1960, after which members of his family continued the tradition. Its current director is Pierre Guillois.

Sewen (French pronunciation: [sevən] ; Alsatian: Seewe) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

The Château de Rosemont is a ruined castle in the commune of Riervescemont in the Territoire de Belfort département of France. It is now a mound of stones with the remains of a tower.

Bussang (French pronunciation: [bysɑ̃] ; German: Büssingen or Büssing) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in Northeastern France. Known as the source of the Moselle River.

Riervescemont is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France.

Lepuix (French pronunciation: [ləpɥi]) is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France.

The Arboretum de Fresse-sur-Moselle (3 hectares) is an arboretum located in Fresse-sur-Moselle, Vosges, Grand Est, France. It contains about 150 varieties of trees.

Fresse-sur-Moselle (French pronunciation: [fʁɛs syʁ mɔzɛl] , literally Fresse on Moselle) is a commune in the Vosges department of Grand Est in northeastern France. The name Moselle refers to the river Moselle that bypasses. In the left of Fresse sur Moselle is situated Le Thillot and in the right of Fresse of Moselle is situated Bussang.In the top is situated Le Menil and in the bottom is situated Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle.

Lac des Perches is a lake in Haut-Rhin, France. At an elevation of 984 m, its surface area is 0.044 km². It is located on the Alsatian side of the Vosges Mountains in the municipality of Rimbach-près-Masevaux.

The Col de Bussang (Bussang Pass) is one of the busiest passes in France's Vosges mountains. Located in the Grand Est region of France at an altitude of 727 m, it links Lorraine and Alsace via Route Nationale 66 (also European Route 512). The two communes on the Lorraine side of the pass are Bussang, and the Alsace side is Urbès. The ridge crossing at Bussang is one of the main historical passes that have crossed the Vosges since ancient times, alongside the Col du Bonhomme, the Col du Donon, and the Col de Saverne. The importance of vehicular traffic over the Bussang pass has grown steadily since the last centuries of the Middle Ages, with the intensification of road and trade links between Flanders and Italy. The passage from the Vosges massif to the south is, therefore, part of a road network based on a so-called Lotharingian Europe, but by no means exclusive to the Flanders-Italy junction. To avoid climbing the passes of the southern Vosges, other trade routes took in the Alsatian plain or the Franche-Comté passes. The flourishing forestry and mining activities of the 15th to 17th centuries in the Upper Moselle Valley at the foot of the Ballon d'Alsace reinforced the local traffic around the Bussang pass, where raw material sites and processing factories were concentrated. The industrial and agropastoral activities of the Upper Moselle also encouraged the immigration of skilled workers from German-speaking countries on the Roman side of the pass, such as miners, marcaires from Switzerland, Alsace, and Germany, and coal miners from Sweden, the Tyrol and the Black Forest in the mountainous area between the Col du Bussang and the Col des Charbonniers. Defourny's Trésor des Chartes de Lorraine does not speak in terms of cols but rather of “passages” or “pertuis” in the village of Vôge. Situated at the crossroads of the Romanesque cultural sphere on the one hand and the Germanic world on the other, the Col de Bussang remains an ancestral frontier between various entities: sovereign states, temporal abbatial or canonical principalities, archdioceses, or linguistic areas. However, its vocation as a passageway has always outweighed its function as a natural frontier.