Bourlémont, Mountain summit in Ronchamp, France.
Bourlémont is a summit reaching 474 meters in the Ballons des Vosges Nature Park, located in Haute-Saône. Built from sandstone, the peak carries the modern chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut and offers views across the Rahin Valley and surrounding countryside.
A Roman temple stood on the summit in antiquity, and in 1092 a Catholic church there was entrusted to the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Vincent in Besançon. The chapel served as the only parish church of Ronchamp and its hamlets in the early 18th century; after a lightning strike set its bell tower alight on 30 August 1913, a new chapel by Le Corbusier was built between 1950 and 1955.
The hill's name appears on the 18th-century Cassini map as "Notre-Dame-de-Bourg-les-monts", pointing to a fortified settlement. The Way of the Cross path, laid out in 1890 for hikers and pilgrims, remains the best-known walking route to the summit. A pilgrimage on 8 September 1873 drew 30,000 people from Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comté.
Multiple walking paths reach the summit, including established local trails and the GR 59 long-distance route along the eastern slope. Hikers find the ascent manageable on foot with several route options to choose from based on their preferences.
The summit also holds the headframe of the Sainte-Marie coal mine, designed by Belgian architect Charles Tournay and listed as a Monument historique on 29 March 2001. The hill's subsoil contains Stephanian coal measures formed some 300 million years ago.
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