Arthez-d'Asson

Arthez-d'Asson
Commune
The Village
The Village
Location of Arthez-d'Asson
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Arthez-d'Asson is located in France
Arthez-d'Asson
Arthez-d'Asson
Arthez-d'Asson is located in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Arthez-d'Asson
Arthez-d'Asson
Coordinates: 43°05′27″N 0°15′03″W / 43.0908°N 0.2508°W / 43.0908; -0.2508
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementPau
CantonOuzom, Gave et Rives du Neez
IntercommunalityCC Pays Nay
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-Jacques Laffitte[1]
Area
1
7.32 km2 (2.83 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
460
 • Density63/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64058 /64800
Elevation329–494 m (1,079–1,621 ft)
(avg. 568 m or 1,864 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arthez-d'Asson (French pronunciation: [aʁtɛz dasɔ̃], literally Arthez of Asson; Occitan: Artés d'Asson) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

Geography

Arthez-d'Asson is in the Ouzom Valley some 30 km south by south-east of Pau and 35 km east by south-east of Oloron-Sainte-Marie. The commune is almost entirely surrounded by the commune of Asson. Access to the commune is by road D126 which comes from Asson in the north passing through the commune and the village, continuing south up the Valley to Ferrières. The commune is almost entirely farmland although with patches of forest particularly along the river.[3]

The Ouzom River flows through the length of the commune from south to north gathering some tributaries on the right bank, such as the Cau du Hau, the Cau du Gat, the Arriou Sec, and the Cau de la Heche, and continuing north to join the Gave de Pau near Coarraze.The Ruisseau de Thouet forms the north-western border of the commune as it flows north-east to join the Ouzom.[3]

Places and Hamlets

  • Les Aoules
  • Arbes
  • Arrascles dessus
  • Arrecgros
  • Arrecous
  • Arribarrouy
  • Boué
  • Canet
  • La Cantine
  • Chartou
  • Chourettes
  • Chourrist
  • Pé de la Coumette
  • Garrenot[4]
  • Guilhamet
  • Guilhem
  • Habout
  • Clot du Hour
  • Hourna
  • Jacob
  • Labède
  • Lacoue
  • Lanot
  • Larrabe
  • Maupas
  • Le Pont du Moulin
  • Panan
  • Peyré
  • La Pine
  • Cot de Tisnès
  • Tort
  • Turounet

[5]

Neighbouring communes and villages

[3]

Toponymy

The commune name in béarnais is Artés d'Asson. Michel Grosclaude indicated that the name Arthez possibly came from the mediterranean radical arte ("green oak" then "undergrowth"), with the collective basque suffix -etz. He proposed it in the sense of "Vegetation of the undergrowth".[6]

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Name Spelling Date Source Page Origin Description
Asson Assoo 11th century Raymond
15
 Saint-Pé Village
Assonium 1100 Raymond
15
 Titles of Mifaget
Villa quœe vocatur Asso 12th century Raymond
15
 Lescar
Assun 13th century Raymond
15
 Fors de Béarn
La vegarie d'Asson 1450 Raymond
15
 Cour Major
Saint Paul d'Asson 1750 Cassini
Saint-Martin d'Asson 1790 Raymond
15
Balirot Balirot 1863 Raymond
20
 Hamlet
Le Bourdalat Le Bourdalat 1863 Raymond
35
 Hamlet
Garrenot Garrenot 1863 Raymond
67
 Hamlet

Sources:

Origins:

History

Paul Raymond noted on page 14 of his 1863 dictionary that the commune was formed in 1749 by the union of the hamlets of Arthez-deçà and Arthez-delà from the commune of Asson.[4]

Panoramic view from the right bank of the Ouzom
Panoramic view from the right bank of the Ouzom

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[12]

From To Name Party Position
1802 Charles d'Angosse Chamberlain of the Emperor
1983 1989 Georges Nabarra
1995 2008 Michel Dourau
2008 2026 Jean-Jacques Laffitte

Inter-communality

The commune is part of four inter-communal structures:

  • the Communauté de communes du Pays de Nay;
  • the AEP association of Pays de Nay-Ouest;
  • the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
  • the inter-communal association for the construction of the CES of Nay;

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arthéziens or Arthéziennes in French.[13]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 1,102—    
1800 977−1.71%
1806 1,011+0.57%
1821 1,148+0.85%
1831 1,372+1.80%
1836 1,320−0.77%
1841 1,380+0.89%
1846 1,313−0.99%
1851 1,279−0.52%
1856 1,275−0.06%
1861 1,220−0.88%
1866 1,243+0.37%
1872 1,043−2.88%
1876 1,075+0.76%
1881 1,042−0.62%
1886 1,183+2.57%
1891 1,137−0.79%
1896 1,152+0.26%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 1,116−0.63%
1906 1,162+0.81%
1911 1,179+0.29%
1921 893−2.74%
1926 874−0.43%
1931 850−0.56%
1936 785−1.58%
1946 687−1.32%
1954 621−1.25%
1962 581−0.83%
1968 538−1.27%
1975 510−0.76%
1982 478−0.92%
1990 466−0.32%
1999 508+0.96%
2007 502−0.15%
2012 511+0.36%
2017 491−0.80%
Source: EHESS[14] and INSEE[15]

Economy

Pasturage at Arthez-d'Asson

The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zone of Ossau-iraty.

Culture and Heritage

The béarnais singing group from Arthez-d'Asson Los de l'Ouzom was created during the 1980s.

Civil Heritage

  • There was a railway line in the commune transporting minerals from the Baburet Iron Mine.
  • The old Asson Ironworks was built around 1680.

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint-Paul (1906) is registered as a historical monument.[16]

Facilities

Arthez-d'Asson has a primary school.

Notable people linked to the commune

  • Jean-Paul d'Angosse, born in 1732 at Lembeye and died in 1798 at Arthez-d'Asson, was a military man, owner of an ironworks, French politician;
  • Armand d'Angosse, born in 1776 at Arthez-d'Asson and died in 1852 at Corbère-Abères, owner of an ironworks, French politician;
  • Charles d'Angosse, born in 1774 at Arthez-d'Asson and died in 1835 at Paris, owner of an ironworks, administrator and French politician.
  • Jean Espagnolle, born in 1828 at Ferrières and died in 1918 at Arthez-d'Asson, was a churchman, preacher, and an honorary canon;
  • Henri Bremond, born in 1865 at Aix-en-Provence and died in 1933 at Arthez-d'Asson, was a churchman, historian, and French literary critic, member of the Académie française.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b c Google Maps
  4. ^ a b c Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
  5. ^ Géoportail, IGN (in French)
  6. ^ Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (in French)
  7. ^ Cassini Map 1750 – Arthez-d'Asson
  8. ^ Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn (in French)
  9. ^ Cartulary of the Bishop of Lescar, published in the proofs of the History of Béarn by Pierre de Marca (in French)
  10. ^ Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  11. ^ Cour Majour of Béarn, register manuscripts from the 15th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  12. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
  13. ^ Pyrénées-Atlantiques, habitants.fr
  14. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Arthez-d'Asson, EHESS (in French).
  15. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  16. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000598 Church of Saint Paul (in French)
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