Jura Mountains

"Jura Mountain", English translation: Jura Mountain.

The top is flatter, Altitude About 1,000 meters. Mainly by limestone Constitute, Karst cave Karst terrain, underground caves, river flow and so on. Principal peak Neigbong It is 1,718 meters above sea level. climate Temperate zone ocean Transitional form from sex to continental. Many hot springs. In the southeast, there are many forests, mainly oak and beech.

Located in northwestern Switzerland and Germany, France junction, structure belongs to Alps The foreland of an orogenic belt. The highly deformed Alps to the southeast are bounded by the Oligocene to Pliocene Molasse basin. As the Alpine arc bends, the Jura forms a crescent protruding northwest, wide in the middle (about 70 km) and narrow at both ends. The northwest outer belt is a plateau composed of near-horizontal strata, also called table Jura; The inner zone is characterized by the development of surface detachment folding and thrusting, the Mesozoic stratigraphy detachment on the Hercynian basement, and the paste salt layer in the Triassic as detachment emerged in the anticlinal core. There are about 160 anticlines in the zone, and the anticlines are box-shaped or sector While the syncline between them is not obvious, forming the famous Jura fold . One wing of the fold is often destroyed by thrust faults, and all structures together reflect the northwestward movement of the surface layer. The time of deformation was after the Middle Pliocene

Historically associated event

Here there are two versions of the origin of the Swiss watch.

Current version: Late 16th century, France The Huguenots who followed Calvin fled to Switzerland, just a mountain away (the Jura Mountains), bringing with them the technology to make watches. This French art and this local Gold and silver jewelry The combination of industries gave rise to the Swiss watchmaking industry. It spreads out from Geneva, near France, mainly along the Jura line to the northeast, to the northeast of Schaffhausen, a narrow strip of land known as the "Watch Valley."

The local version, mainly derived from the small town of Lashaudfeng in the middle of the Watch Valley, more than 300 years ago, a local horse dealer in Lashaudfeng made money to buy back a fashionable luxury watch from the European metropolis of London. But before long, there is a problem with the watch, and the horse dealer tries his luck with the local skilled craftsman Darnell. Darnell, who had never seen a watch, not only repaired the watch, but also thoroughly understood the mechanical principle inside the watch, and he even made a watch with homemade tools. Since then, watchmaking workshops have sprung up locally. A few years later, the Reformation took place in Europe, and many French Protestants, in order to escape religious persecution, crossed the Jura Mountains to the elevation of more than 1,000 meters in Lashaudfeng. Because religious leaders at that time forbade craftsmen to make religious objects such as crosses and communion cups, and they were also not allowed to make jewelry. Many of those who fled here were skilled artisans who found use in the watch industry in Lashaudfeng. It is said that when the winter snow closed the mountains, the clock workshop of the family unit began to use their own ideas and superb skills to make a variety of clocks, and when the spring flowers went down to Paris, London and other places to sell the clock, a few watches can support a family's life for a year. Hundreds of years of development and inheritance, the watch industry of Lashaud Feng continues to flourish, becoming the center of the Swiss watch industry.

It's just such a coincidence. The brutal religious struggle and cleansing of the Middle Ages has created a watch industry that the Swiss are most proud of for more than 100 years. The development of the Swiss watch industry from a family handicraft workshop to a modern industry has benefited from the Industrial revolution During the period, the Swiss invented the watch movement, and the time-honored watchmaker with family heritage as the main feature created a brand named after himself. The core technology and brand ultimately made Swiss watches dominant.