Created in 2010, the association "La Battante Morzinoise" has reconstructed and fitted out, for visitors, the Albert Richard sawmill from 1914, with its water wheel, on the Dérêches site, in Morzine.
It took more than ten years of construction, engineering, restoration and reassembly, in collaboration between the municipality of Morzine and the volunteers of "La Battante", to bring this installation threatened with disappearance back to life. A work punctuated by association events, country meals on site, visits to the construction site in progress during Heritage Days...
But also a work of patience and technical cogitations (mechanical, cast iron, wood, resistance of materials, fluids…), restoration of old pieces…
Article 1 : The Village Square
Article 2: Bézière
Article 3: The Mills
Article 4: L’Hôtel des Alpes
Article 5: Le Clos
Article 6: Maison de la Poste
Article 7: The Old Bridge (Le Vieux Pont)
Article 8: The River Dranse
Article 9: Le Plan neighbourhood
Article 10: The Old Cable-Car
Article 11: The Old Villages
Article 12 : Avoriaz
Article 13: The Avoriaz Cable-Car
Article 14: The Udrezants Neighbourhood
Article 15: The Nyon Gondola
Article 16: Les Nants Village
Article 17: The Manor House
Article 18: Le Vieux Bourg
Article 19: The Pleney Cable-car
Article 20: Le Grand Hôtel
Article 21: Sawmill at “Le Plan”
Article 22: The Slate Mines
Article 23: Combe à Zore
Article 24: The two water fountains
Article 25: Le Pied de la Plagne
It took more than ten years of construction, engineering, restoration and reassembly, in collaboration between the municipality of Morzine and the volunteers of "La Battante", to bring this installation threatened with disappearance back to life. A work punctuated by association events, country meals on site, visits to the construction site in progress during Heritage Days...
But also a work of patience and technical cogitations (mechanical, cast iron, wood, resistance of materials, fluids…), restoration of old pieces…
Article 1 : The Village Square
Article 2: Bézière
Article 3: The Mills
Article 4: L’Hôtel des Alpes
Article 5: Le Clos
Article 6: Maison de la Poste
Article 7: The Old Bridge (Le Vieux Pont)
Article 8: The River Dranse
Article 9: Le Plan neighbourhood
Article 10: The Old Cable-Car
Article 11: The Old Villages
Article 12 : Avoriaz
Article 13: The Avoriaz Cable-Car
Article 14: The Udrezants Neighbourhood
Article 15: The Nyon Gondola
Article 16: Les Nants Village
Article 17: The Manor House
Article 18: Le Vieux Bourg
Article 19: The Pleney Cable-car
Article 20: Le Grand Hôtel
Article 21: Sawmill at “Le Plan”
Article 22: The Slate Mines
Article 23: Combe à Zore
Article 24: The two water fountains
Article 25: Le Pied de la Plagne
