The Tufière d'Amorey

Depart from the town of Auberive, latitude 47.7870350 (N 47° 47’ 13”), longitude 5.0630650 (E 5° 3’ 47”)

• Auberive and his abbey

• Ancient and rich Cistercian abbey, Auberive was founded in 1135 on the banks of the Aube by Saint Bernard and the bishop of Langres, Villain d'Aigrement, with the support of the surrounding lords (Grancey, Champlitte, Rochetaillée and their vassals).
• The monastery, particularly prosperous in the twelfth century, suffered the ravages of the Hundred Years War, the Wars of Religion in the sixteenth century, then the Thirty Years War (XVII century) since located at the border between Champagne and Burgundy. The buildings then in ruins, were rebuilt in part in the seventeenth century (cloister), to be completed in the eighteenth century.

• The Val Clavin

• Val Clavin is one of the most prestigious sites in Haute-Marne. Open to the north, the combe has one of the coldest microclimates in the area, favoring vegetation with a tendency to mountain, with forest types closely related to the orientation of the slope: located in the coldest areas develops the beech forest cold to dental and maple groves; on a large proportion of the well-exposed slopes the montane dry beetle with Carex alba flourishes, with many rare and protected species (Cephalanthera rubra and longifolia); the hygrophilous forests border the stream and the marsh.

• The Tufière d'Amorey

• It is just a few steps from the source of the Moulineaux that this tufière ignored by the crowds feed the Germainelle.

This source was known to be miraculous and had the power to predict to the girls if they would marry in the year. For that, it was enough to throw a pin in the brook. If she floated and was driven by the current, nothing happened. If, on the other hand, the needle ran steeply, the girl married in the year.

• A real natural laboratory, the tufa tree transforms the mosses into "tuff". The bicarbonate contained in the infiltration water is decomposed there: the carbon dioxide is assimilated by the mosses (photosynthesis), which causes the precipitation of the dissolved limestone which constitutes then the "tuff". The deposit of limestone and the growth of the mosses form pads that rise, gradually building a natural dam.