Le Grand Ballon (German: Großer Belchen; translates as big balloon) is the apex of the Vosges mountains, located 25 kilometres northwest of Mulhouse, France. The Vosges mountains are range of mountains in central-western Europe, stretching along the west side of the Rhine valley in a NNE direction, from Basel to Mainz, for a distance of 250 km (150 miles). ... km redirects here. ... Mulhouse (French: Mulhouse, pronounced ; Alsatian: Milhüsa; German: Mülhausen) is a town and commune in eastern France close to Swiss and German border. ...
The well known Route des Crêtes (French for road of the peaks) circumvents the mountain top around east, crossing a mountain pass at an altitude of 1343 m, between the Markstein winter sports station and Hartmannswillerkopf rocky spur. The French Cemetery at Hartmannswillerkopf. ...
Coordinates: 47°55′N 7°08′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
The Vosges in their southern portion are mainly of granite, with some porphyritic masses and of a kind of red sandstone (occasionally 1640 ft. in thickness) which on the western versant bears the French name of grès Vosgien.
The départements of Vosges and Haute Saône are divided from Alsace and the territory of Belfort by the Ballon d'Alsace or St Maurice (4100 ft.).
The railway from Paris to Strasbourg and the Rhine and Marne Canal traverse the Col de Saverne.
Le sud du massif fait partie du Parc naturel régional desBallonsdes Vosges tandis que l'extrêmité septentrionale constitue le Parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord.
L'ère quaternaire et ses glaciations vont laisser des traces sur le relief, creusant de larges vallées en auge, laissant nombre de lacs et de tourbières, et donnant au massif cette forme deballons arrondis.
Le massif des Vosges offre un profil très dissymétrique, opposant le sud cristallin et le nord gréseux, l'ouest en pente douce et l'est accidenté.
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