The village of Pompaples is host to a place called the “middle of the World”. In fact, a frail watercourse called “le Nozon” separates into two diametrically opposed directions right here, at the Moulin Bornu. One stream goes south, towards the Leman Lake, then in the Rhône and finishes its course in the Mediterranean Sea. The other stream goes north, and towards the Neuchâtel Lake, then the Rhine, and ends up in the North Sea.
The village of Pompaples is host to a place called the “middle of the World”. In fact, a frail watercourse called “le Nozon” separates into two diametrically opposed directions right here, at the Moulin Bornu. One stream goes south, towards the Leman Lake, then in the Rhône and finishes its course in the Mediterranean Sea. The other stream goes north, and towards the Neuchâtel Lake, then the Rhine, and ends up in the North Sea.
"A whirlpool forms at the point where the small streams that will form the great rivers literally join and separate. The waters slide down one side towards the Venoge, which flows 'lovingly into the arms of the blue Léman', murmurs Jean Villard, known as Gilles, in his famous poem La Venoge, which he describes as a small, capricious and 'strangely endearing' river".
Source: Une envie de Suisse by Delphine Bovey, Éd. Socialinfo, Lausanne, 2017
