{"id":3900,"date":"2019-10-14T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.elevationalps.com\/blog\/lhistoire-du-ski-a-morzine\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:52:29","slug":"lhistoire-du-ski-a-morzine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elevationalps.com\/fr\/blog\/lhistoire-du-ski-a-morzine\/","title":{"rendered":"L’histoire du ski \u00e0 Morzine"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’histoire du ski \u00e0 Morzine<\/h1>\n

L’histoire du ski \u00e0 Morzine remonte aux ann\u00e9es 1920 et est une \u00e9volution inspir\u00e9e par deux pionniers locaux. Cependant, il a fallu des d\u00e9cennies de domination religieuse, d’agriculture et d’exploitation mini\u00e8re avant les ann\u00e9es 1920 pour que le d\u00e9veloppement du ski soit possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

En 1181, Morzine, qui s’appelait alors Morgenes, ce qui signifie zone frontali\u00e8re en latin, a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9pertori\u00e9e comme \u00ab\u00a0granges\u00a0\u00bb de l’abbaye d’Aulps, le monast\u00e8re cistercien situ\u00e9 en contrebas de la route \u00e0 St Jean d’Aulps. Les granges \u00e9taient des zones agricoles o\u00f9 les moines travaillaient la terre et \u00e9levaient du b\u00e9tail pour fournir \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 eccl\u00e9siastique de la nourriture, des v\u00eatements et des mat\u00e9riaux de construction. Les granges \u00e9taient essentielles \u00e0 la survie et \u00e0 la croissance des Cisterciens. En 1531, St Jean d’Aulps a pris son ind\u00e9pendance par rapport aux Cisterciens et le village a prosp\u00e9r\u00e9 en tant que petite communaut\u00e9 agricole paisible. Plus tard, au XVIIIe si\u00e8cle, la principale activit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique de Morzine est devenue l’extraction de l’ardoise et de nombreuses mines ont \u00e9t\u00e9 exploit\u00e9es dans la vall\u00e9e, dont quelques-unes sont encore visibles aujourd’hui. <\/span><\/p>\n

Une ville de ski est n\u00e9e<\/h2>\n

L’exploitation de l’ardoise a apport\u00e9 la richesse \u00e0 la r\u00e9gion et le tourisme a suivi. Le catalyseur de cette nouvelle industrie fut l’homme d’affaires local Fran\u00e7ois Baud qui construisit le Grand H\u00f4tel en 1925. Il s’agit du premier h\u00f4tel construit \u00e0 Morzine et il l’a ing\u00e9nieusement situ\u00e9 au pied de la montagne du Pleney. Il a ensuite am\u00e9nag\u00e9 des pistes de ski sur les pentes du Pleney, juste derri\u00e8re l’h\u00f4tel. La premi\u00e8re version de la remont\u00e9e m\u00e9canique du Pleney a \u00e9t\u00e9 install\u00e9e en 1934 et n’\u00e9tait que la deuxi\u00e8me remont\u00e9e m\u00e9canique construite dans toute la France. Au d\u00e9but, le t\u00e9l\u00e9ski \u00e9tait surtout utilis\u00e9 par les randonneurs, mais il a rapidement attir\u00e9 les skieurs les plus audacieux \u00e0 la recherche d’un plus grand d\u00e9fi, et voil\u00e0…. Morzine est devenue une station de ski. <\/span><\/p>\n

Le nom de Fran\u00e7ois Baud restera \u00e0 jamais synonyme de Morzine et ses descendants vivent toujours dans la ville. Le pont suspendu de Super Morzine porte \u00e9galement son nom. <\/span><\/p>\n

Morzine pendant la guerre<\/h3>\n

Malheureusement, la Seconde Guerre mondiale a mis un terme au d\u00e9veloppement du ski dans la r\u00e9gion. Les nazis occup\u00e8rent la ville et organis\u00e8rent des patrouilles r\u00e9guli\u00e8res, car le col du Cou, \u00e0 l’extr\u00e9mit\u00e9 de la vall\u00e9e de la Manche, est frontalier avec la Suisse et devient une voie de contrebande essentielle. Les r\u00e9sistants utilisaient le col pour faire passer des armes et des combattants en France et les Juifs l’utilisaient pour \u00e9chapper \u00e0 l’oppression nazie. <\/span><\/p>\n

L’or olympique fait avancer les choses<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"histoire<\/a><\/p>\n

En temps de paix, Morzine n’a pas tard\u00e9 \u00e0 revenir au premier plan du monde du ski. Le skieur local Jean Vuarnet a remport\u00e9 l’or en descente aux Jeux olympiques de Squaw Valley en Californie en 1960 et la ville s’est ralli\u00e9e \u00e0 lui \u00e0 son retour. Vuarnet a \u00e9t\u00e9 la force motrice du d\u00e9veloppement du domaine skiable et a jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le d\u00e9terminant dans la cr\u00e9ation d’Avoriaz et dans l’association des stations locales pour former ce que nous connaissons aujourd’hui sous le nom de Portes du Soleil. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"histoire<\/a>

Avoriaz en construction dans les ann\u00e9es 1960<\/p><\/div>\n

Aujourd’hui, Morzine est le c\u0153ur des Portes du Soleil et la principale station baln\u00e9aire, avec une communaut\u00e9 dynamique et un tourisme qui dure toute l’ann\u00e9e. Le domaine skiable qui entoure la ville est l’un des plus grands au monde et attire des millions de touristes chaque ann\u00e9e. Avec plus de 650 km de pistes, 316 pentes accessibles par 197 remont\u00e9es m\u00e9caniques et 12 stations r\u00e9parties dans deux pays, je me demande si Fran\u00e7ois Baud \u00e9tait conscient de ce qu’il entreprenait en 1925 ? <\/span><\/p>\n

Et quel meilleur moyen de s’immerger dans toute cette histoire que de venir la voir de ses propres yeux. Envoyez-nous un message en utilisant le formulaire de contact<\/a> ou parcourez notre collection exclusive de Locations de Vacances de Luxe \u00e0 Morzine .<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L’histoire du ski \u00e0 Morzine L’histoire du ski \u00e0 Morzine remonte aux ann\u00e9es 1920 et est une \u00e9volution inspir\u00e9e par deux pionniers locaux. Cependant, il a fallu des d\u00e9cennies de domination religieuse, d’agriculture et d’exploitation mini\u00e8re avant les ann\u00e9es 1920 pour que le d\u00e9veloppement du ski soit possible. 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