Auriac, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Auriac
Commune
Bearnais house in Auriac
Bearnais house in Auriac
Location of Auriac
Map
Auriac is located in France
Auriac
Auriac
Auriac is located in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Auriac
Auriac
Coordinates: 43°27′23″N 0°18′53″W / 43.4564°N 0.3147°W / 43.4564; -0.3147
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementPau
CantonTerres des Luys et Coteaux du Vic-Bilh
IntercommunalityCC Luys Béarn
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-Claude Vignes[1]
Area
1
5.23 km2 (2.02 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
221
 • Density42/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64078 /64450
Elevation145–250 m (476–820 ft)
(avg. 242 m or 794 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Auriac (French pronunciation: [oʁjak] ⓘ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

Geography

Auriac is located some 20 km north of Pau just east of Argelos. Access to the commune is by road D834 from Sarron in the north which passes through the commune and continues to Pau in the south. Access to the village is by road D944 from the village to Thèze in the north-west and the D227 from the village to Sévignacq in the south-east. The A55 autoroute passes through the north of the commune with Exit 9 just north-east of the commune giving access to road D834. The commune is mixed forest and farmland.[3]

Places and hamlets

  • Alpin
  • Baix
  • Bernède
  • Blanc
  • Calot
  • Camot
  • Cassagne
  • Cazaudehore[4]
  • Chin
  • Cournau
  • Duclos
  • Fam
  • Hourticq
  • Laborde
  • Madaune
  • Maribat
  • Moulin de Mugain
  • Mounpézat
  • Pénouilh
  • Périco
  • Pierroulou
  • Porte[5]
  • Poudgé
  • Rey
  • Ser (forest)

[6]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Toponymy

Entry to Auriac
Exit from Auriac

The commune name in béarnais is Auriac. Michel Grosclaude said that the name probably comes from the Latin man's name Aurius with the Gallo-Roman suffix -acum giving "Domain of Aurius".[7]

The following table shows the origin of the commune name:

Name Spelling Date Source Page Origin Description
Auriac Auriag 1096 Raymond
17
 Marka Village
Auriac 1750 Cassini

Sources:

Origins:

History

Paul Raymond noted that Auriac was once an annex of Argelos.[8]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[11]

Mayors from 1824 to 1940
From To Name
1824 1829 Augustin Baix
1829 1831 Jean Bertrand
1831 1836 Augustin Baix
1836 1837 Pierre Madaune
1837 1864 Pierre Julien Viguerie
1864 1899 Justin Madaune
1899 1908 Jean Philippe Madaune
1908 1911 Maurice Rey
1911 1919 André Madaune
1919 1929 Jean Soubré
1929 1939 André Madaune
1939 1940 Jean Touret
Old Town Hall
The current Town Hall
Mayors from 1940
From To Name
1940 1942 Jean Evrard
1942 1944 Pierre Boué-Cam
1944 1945 Joseph Soubré
1945 1948 René Rey
1948 1949 Pierre Clauzet
1949 1951 Jean Maribat
1951 1951 Joseph Soubré
1951 1953 Pierre Boué-Cam
1953 1959 René Rey
1959 1962 Pierre Clauzet
1962 1963 René Rey
1965 1971 Claude Larrieu
1971 1977 Henri Hélip
1977 1993 Marc Rey
1993 2020 Christian Larrouturou
2020 2026 Jean-Claude Vignes

Inter-communality

The commune is part of five inter-communal structures:

  • the Communauté de communes des Luys en Béarn;
  • the SIVU for collective sanitation Auriac-Miossens-Lanusse-Thèze
  • the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
  • the inter-communal association for the management of drinking water from the Luy-Gabas-Lées;
  • the inter-communal association of Garlède-Lalonquette;

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Auriacois or Auriacoises in French.[12]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1831 317—    
1836 351+2.06%
1841 330−1.23%
1846 352+1.30%
1851 340−0.69%
1856 339−0.06%
1861 293−2.87%
1866 283−0.69%
1872 287+0.23%
1876 284−0.26%
1881 277−0.50%
1886 257−1.49%
1891 223−2.80%
1896 226+0.27%
1901 227+0.09%
1906 231+0.35%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1911 219−1.06%
1921 189−1.46%
1926 176−1.42%
1931 179+0.34%
1936 184+0.55%
1946 182−0.11%
1954 179−0.21%
1962 163−1.16%
1968 153−1.05%
1975 167+1.26%
1982 166−0.09%
1990 180+1.02%
1999 209+1.67%
2007 247+2.11%
2012 244−0.24%
2017 238−0.50%
Source: EHESS[13] and INSEE[14]

Culture and heritage

An Auriac Farmhouse

Civil heritage

The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

  • A House at Porte (16th century)[5]
  • A House at Cazaudehore (19th century)[4]
  • Houses and Farms (16th and 19th centuries)[15]

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint-François-de-Sales

The commune has two religious buildings that are registered as historical monuments:

  • The Parish Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (18th century) (destroyed)[16]
  • The Parish Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (1885).[17] This church was built in 1885 to replace the old church of the same name which appeared on the Cassini Map. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:

Facilities

Auriac has a primary school which also serves the communes of Garlède-Mondebat, Lalonquette et Miossens-Lanusse in an Educational Inter-communal Grouping.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b Google Maps
  4. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026731 House at Cazaudehore (in French)
  5. ^ a b Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026732 House at Porte (in French)
  6. ^ Géoportail, IGN (in French)
  7. ^ a b Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (in French)
  8. ^ a b Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, p. 17, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
  9. ^ Cassini Map 1750 - Auriac
  10. ^ Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn p. 356
  11. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
  12. ^ Pyrénées-Atlantiques, habitants.fr
  13. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Auriac, EHESS (in French).
  14. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  15. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026729 Houses and Farms (in French)
  16. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027931 Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (destroyed) (in French)
  17. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027930 Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (in French)
  18. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001186 Furniture in the Church (in French)
  19. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001185 Chasuble (in French)
  20. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001184 Sun-ray Monstrance (in French)
  21. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001183 2 Altar Candlesticks (in French)
  22. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001182 Chalice (in French)
  23. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001181 Prie-dieux (in French)
  24. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001180 Stoup (in French)
  25. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001179 2 Altars, 4 altar seatings, and 2 Tabernacles (in French)
  26. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001178 Altar, 2 altar seatings, a Tabernacle, and 2 Statues (in French)
  27. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM64001177 3 Stained glass windows of people: Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Michael protecting a canon, and Saint John (in French)
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