Baraques du 14 de la forêt de Chaux, Historical monument in La Vieille-Loye, France

Baraques du 14 is a former forest hamlet in the Chaux forest, rebuilt as an ecomuseum in 1990. It comprises about ten reconstructed wooden structures, including four dwellings: the oldest dates from 1537, with wattle-and-daub infill and an oak shingle roof, while three others date from 1830. Two working bread ovens, a well, a vegetable garden, vine rows and a beehive stand alongside.

In 1830, the Water and Forest administration created fifteen settlement groups in the forest for loggers and charcoal workers. Only the fourteenth group has survived to the present day.

The site keeps a vegetable garden, rows of vines and a beehive, and hosts costume events, festivals, a folk music group and evening gatherings in summer. Two trees carry local folklore: a wish oak and a golden tree. Novels by Bernard Clavel (1980) and André Besson (1987) brought the hamlet wider notice.

The site sits in open forest and is easily reached on foot through woodland paths. Sturdy shoes are helpful since the ground is uneven and trails wind through the trees.

The oldest dwelling here dates from 1537 and keeps its wattle-and-daub infill under a roof of oak shingles, called tavaillons locally. The other three houses were built around 1830, and a fifth is an extension of the second. Two Jura novelists, Bernard Clavel and André Besson, set books here in 1980 and 1987.