Forest of Lorge

The forest of Lorge is located in the department of the Côtes of Armor in Brittany at approximately 25 km at the south of Saint-Brieuc partly on the commune of the Hermitage-Lorge.

Geography

The forest of Lorge has a surface of 507 hectares. The minimal altitude of the forest is of 207 meters and its maximum altitude is of 318 meters.

The site includes the Moors of Lanfains, hill and slopes of weak slope forming a whole of moors dominating the area, the summit of Kerchouan, important relief (318m) made up of schists and quarzites metamorphized in contact with the granite of Quintin and occupied by timberings and more or less boggy moors, as of the elements of the vast main forest which the forests of Lorge and the Pole form. The sector is characterized by a complex of summit dry moors on surface ground, boggy wet moors (priority habitat), of peat bogs, hêtraie (in particular hêtraie of Asperulo-Fagetum).

History

With the locality Forging mills, a path led to the Pits of the forest of Lorge. In a mass grave, one found the bodies torture victims of fifty-five patriots, killed by the Nazis in July 1944, for the murder of a German officer. Among these patriots the body of Mireille Chrisostome appeared.

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