Aramits

Aramits
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton	Oloron-Sainte-Marie-1
Community association	Haut Bearn
Coordinates	43 ° 7 ′ N , 0 ° 44 ′ W Coordinates: 43 ° 7 ′ N , 0 ° 44 ′ W
height	212-628 m
surface	29.55 km 2
Residents	669 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	23 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	64570
INSEE code	64029
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Aramits is a French municipality with 669 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Oloron-Sainte-Marie and the canton of Oloron-Sainte-Marie-1 (until 2015: canton of Aramits ).

The inhabitants are called Aramitsia .

geography

The river Vert in the Serreuille district

Aramits is located about 15 kilometers southwest of Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the Barétous valley, the westernmost of the three valleys of the Hoch-Béarn . The highest point in Aramits is the Sommet de Souek (628 m), northwest of the town center.

Aramits is surrounded by the neighboring communities:

Esquiule and Ance-Féas in the north,
Asasp-Arros in the east,
Arette and Issor in the south,
Lanne-en-Barétous in the southwest as well
Barcus in the west.

Aramits lies in the catchment area of the river Adour and is crossed by three tributaries of the Gave d'Oloron , the Mielle , the Vert and the Joos .

The Vert has tributaries that cross the local area:

the Aurone,
the Lancy,
the Littos, which rises in the local area,
the Talou Gros,
the Arrec Bugalaran, which rises in the local area,
the Bitole, also called Vert de Barlanès ,
- with its tributary in the local area, the Arrec de Rachet,
the Ibarcis and
the Labeigt which rises in the local area
- with its tributary originating in the local area, the Audore.

The Vert also has tributaries that flow through the local area:

the Arriou de Soulou,
the bouhatéko erhka
- with its tributary, the Arrec Dragon, which arises in the local area.

history

Musketeer Aramis, illustration

Aramits was first mentioned in 1270 in the copy book of the Ossau valley . A few years earlier, around 1221, the inhabitants of the Barétous valley renounced the margraves. The community of the villages was administered by the magistrates of the six municipalities that met in the main town of Aramits.

In the census of 1385, 52 families were counted and it was noted that the settlement was in the Bailliage of Oloron .

Like many other settlements in Béarn or in the Basque Country, Aramits is also on the Way of St. James , a pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia ( Spain ). In the case of Aramits, it is the way over the Col de la Pierre Saint-Martin , today's Routes départementales 133 and 132. Aramits ran a pilgrimage hostel that was destroyed in the turmoil of the Huguenot Wars around 1569.

In the 17th century, the family of Henry d'Aramitz , a famous musketeer of the French King Louis XIII, lived. , the castle of Labadie in Aramits.

Population development

year	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2009	2017
Residents	600	621	602	588	653	677	669

From 1962 official figures without residents with a secondary residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 1999, INSEE from 2009

Attractions

Church Saint-Vincent and portal of the former monastery lay

Parish church, dedicated to Vincent de Valencia , venerated as the patron saint of winemakers . The current church was built in 1884 by architect Gabriel Serres from Pau in neo-Byzantine style , which was fashionable in the 19th century. An example of this is the Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre in Paris. The parish church replaced the former lay monastery , of which an entrance gate with raised work from the 17th century, a few meters from the church, remains.

Town twinning

Aramits maintains town twinning through the community association, the Communauté de communes de la vallée de Barétous, with:

Isaba in Spain , since 1977
Roncal in Spain since 2003.

Economy and Infrastructure

In addition to traditional agriculture and processing of animal products, tourism also determines the economy.

Aramits is located in the AOC zones of Ossau-Iraty , a traditionally made semi-hard cheese made from sheep's milk, as well as the pig breed and the ham "Kintoa". A cheese dairy in Aramits produces Ossau-Iraty, a traditionally made semi-hard cheese made from sheep's milk, and other types of cheese.

Active workplaces by industry on December 31, 2014
total = 80

School building in Aramits

education

Aramits has a public preschool and elementary school with 54 pupils in the 2017/2018 school year.

traffic

Aramits is connected to the Routes départementales 133, 659, 918 (former Route nationale 618a ) and 919 (former Route nationale 618 ) and is connected to other communes in the department by lines of the Transports 64 bus network via Oloron-Sainte-Marie.

Personalities

Henri d'Aramitz is the model for Alexandre Dumas for his fictional character "Aramis" in his novel " The Three Musketeers ". He was born around 1620 and was a musketeer in the French king's guard from 1640 to 1646 . It is believed that his death occurred between 1673 and 1675.

Web links

Commons : Aramits - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Pyrénées-Atlantiques Gentile ( fr ) habitant.fr. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

↑ géoportail ( fr ) Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière . Retrieved January 14, 2017.

↑ Ma commune: Aramits ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

^ Paul Raymond: Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées ( fr ) In: Dictionnaire topographique de la France . Imprimerie nationale. 7, 1863. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

↑ ^a ^b Regional Council of Aquitaine: Aramits ( fr ) Visites en Aquitaine. Archived from the original on January 14, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

↑ Notice Communale Aramits ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved January 14, 2017.

↑ Populations légales 2014 Commune d'Aramits (64029) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved January 14, 2017.

↑ Conseil régional d'Aquitaine: Église Saint-Vincent ( fr ) Visites en Aquitaine. Archived from the original on January 14, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

^ Atlas français de la coopération décentralisée et des autres actions extérieures ( fr ) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development . Retrieved January 14, 2017.

↑ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved October 9, 2017.

^ Fromagerie du Pays d'Aramits ( fr ) Fromagerie du Pays d'Aramits. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2014 Commune d'Aramits (64029) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved on January 14, 2017. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.insee.fr
^ École maternelle et élémentaire ( fr ) National Ministry of Education. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
^ Les Mousquetaires ( fr ) Offices de Tourisme des Pyrénées Béarnaises. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

[1] Pyrénées-Atlantiques Gentile ( fr ) habitant.fr. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

[2] éoportail ( fr ) Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière . Retrieved January 14, 2017.

[3] Ma commune: Aramits ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved January 14, 2017.

[4] Paul Raymond: Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées ( fr ) In: Dictionnaire topographique de la France . Imprimerie nationale. 7, 1863. Retrieved January 14, 2017.