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Primeval Beech Forests

Adrian Turtschi Germany - 17-Sep-24

Primeval Beech Forests

Le Grand Ventron, September 2024

The Vosges mountain range in Alsace turns out to be surprisingly, well, mountainous, with steep cliffs, large boulders, and hair pinned mountain pass roads, which came as a little bit of a surprise to me, having grown up in the Alps myself, and expecting more of a landscape with gentle slopes and undulating hills.

I’m no tree expert, but the beech forests around the Grand Ventron mountain peak seem to owe their existence to a very specific local micro-climate

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The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier

Adrian Turtschi Germany - 17-Sep-24

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier

La Manufacture à Saint- Dié, September 2024

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges is a truly enjoyable little town which boasts two world heritage sites: a small World War I nécropole some 30 minutes walking distance in the eastern suburbs, and of course the famous Duval factory building, the only one of its kind ever realized by Le Corbusier.

Progressive industrialist Jean-Jacques Duval somehow managed to convince the Great Architect to visit the far countryside in order to rebuild his hosiery factory, destroyed during World War II

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Primeval Beech Forests

Adrian Turtschi Germany - 28-Aug-24

Primeval Beech Forests

Valle di Lodano, August 2024

Valle Maggia is a large alpine valley in Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, extending some 60 kilometers from Locarno to the north towards the Gotthard Massif, which forms the watershed between the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Many smaller side valleys extend from Valle Maggia, one of which being the Valle di Lodano, which forms part of the larger Valli di Lodano, Busai and Soladino forest reserves. Unusually, the flanks of the valleys in this part of the Alps are covered not by conifers such as firs or spruce but by broadleaves – mainly beech, extending from the floor of the valley almost all the way up to the mountain ridges.

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Primeval Beech Forests

Adrian Turtschi Germany - 26-May-24

Primeval Beech Forests

Sonian Forest, May 2024

The Sonian Forest is a small 2-km2 property in Flanders located on the south-eastern outskirts of Brussels – all that remains of what used to be a much larger forested area going all the way to the Ardennes. Pretty much all of it was chopped down over time, including some trees ending up – rather uselessly – for building Napoleon’s never-carried-out English invasion fleet.

A Flemish-only UNESCO forest would not work in the complex dynamics that is the non-country (to quote the rather infamous former MEP), hence two smaller pieces along both sides of a busy road to the north in the Brussels-Capital Region as well as two really tiny areas on the other side of a major highway to the south in Wallonia were added to balance things out nicely.

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Primeval Beech Forests

Adrian Turtschi Germany - 14-Oct-23

Primeval Beech Forests

Bettlachstock, October 2023

Bettlachstock lies on the southern slopes of the Jura – the lesser known of the two parallel mountain ranges crossing the country diagonally (with the Mittelland plane lying in-between, where the majority of the Swiss population lives). Bizarrely, the official UNESCO nomination files talk about Forêt de la Bettlachstock, even though Bettlachstock forest lies squarely in the German-speaking part of Switzerland (the country takes its language borders very seriously).

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