La Bresse altitude: village, Hohneck, Schlucht and nearby lakes

La Bresse is at 635 m altitude according to Visit Grand Est, the town hall is at 640 metres according to a private directory, the Hohneck ski area is written “from 900m to 1350m”, the summit of the Hohneck is labelled 1,363 m on a webcam and the Col de la Schlucht at 1,139 m. The values below are copied from pages opened on 26 October 2026, with the name of the source next to each figure. In our reading, these sources do not all measure the same point, so we give them side by side without picking one.

La Bresse: village and commune

For the commune, several reference lines come up. Visit Grand Est writes that La Bresse is located “at 635m altitude”. The private directory annuaire-mairie.fr says the town hall is at 640 metres and that the commune’s altitude “varies between a minimum of 580 metres and a maximum of 1,363 metres”, with an average of 972 metres. The site Laltitude.fr shows 848 m for the town, without saying which point that figure refers to. The page also lists “La-bresse (88250) 636 m, 0.7 km” among its nearby towns and cites OpenStreetMap as its data source.

Among the pages we opened, including the history page of the commune’s website and the Insee sheet, none gives an altitude per district or hamlet, so we do not write any. Among the pages we opened, the nearby references we found are those of the lakes and webcams of the valley: Lac des Corbeaux at 887 m and Lac de Lispach at 909 m (Visit Grand Est, which also writes “Altitude: 900 m” for the resort), the Lispach cross-country area at 909 m (La Bresse tourist office). We found no IGN value.

Hohneck and the La Bresse Hohneck ski area

The resort writes that its ski area runs “From 900m to 1350m altitude”, with 450 metres of vertical drop. The webcams page of the La Bresse tourist office gives finer altitudes, level by level.

The caption of the “Summit of the Hohneck” webcam on that page speaks of “the highest point of the Vosges département”, and 1,363 m is that webcam’s label. For the slopes, the details are in our complete guide to skiing at La Bresse Hohneck.

Col de la Schlucht and nearby lakes

The Col de la Schlucht is written “At 1,139 m altitude” by the Gérardmer tourist office, which adds that it “links the Vosges to Alsace on the Route des Crêtes”. For the lakes, the guide to the lakes around La Bresse and Gérardmer details swimming and walks, and the altitudes are repeated here.

The Munster valley sheet writes that Lac du Forlet is “the highest of all the lakes in the Vosges”.

Why altitude matters for snow and the road

None of the pages we read links an altitude to a snow threshold or to the state of a road. What the sources write is more limited. The resort announces opening from 19 December 2026 to 21 March 2027 “subject to snow conditions”. The La Bresse tourist office describes the Haut Chitelet webcam as “ideal for monitoring conditions at altitude on the ski area”. The Gérardmer tourist office writes that the Col de la Schlucht webcam reports on the weather and mountain conditions, summer and winter alike.

In our reading, these figures are mainly useful for interpreting webcams and bulletins: a snow front at 910 m and a summit at 1,363 m do not necessarily see the same thing on the same day, and the Col de la Schlucht, at 1,139 m, is best looked at separately from the village. The guide to snow conditions at La Bresse gathers the dates and the snowmaker count, and the one on the Col de la Schlucht in winter the links to the webcams and road pages. The webcams of the Vosges passes are listed in a separate guide.

See also

• Lakes around La Bresse and Gérardmer
• Complete guide to skiing at La Bresse Hohneck
• Snow conditions at La Bresse
• Col de la Schlucht in winter
• Webcams of the Vosges passes