Berberust Lias

Berberust Lias
region	Occitania
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Argelès-Gazost
Canton	Lourdes-2
Community association	Agglomération Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées
Coordinates	43 ° 3 ′ N , 0 ° 2 ′ W Coordinates: 43 ° 3 ′ N , 0 ° 2 ′ W
height	520-1,504 m
surface	5.73 km 2
Residents	50 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	9 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	65100
INSEE code	65082
	; View of the center of Berberust-Lias

Berbérust-Lias is a French commune with 50 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region (before 2016: Midi-Pyrénées ). The municipality belongs to the Argelès-Gazost arrondissement and the Lourdes-2 canton (until 2015: Lourdes-Est canton ).

The inhabitants are called Berbéruziens and Berbéruziennes .

geography

Berbérust-Lias is located about six kilometers south-southeast of Lourdes in the historic county of Bigorre .

Berbérust-Lias is surrounded by the seven neighboring municipalities:

Ger	Saint-Créac	Ousté
Geu		Ourdon
	Saint-Pastous	Gazost

Berbérust-Lias lies in the catchment area of the Adour River . The Riu Gros, also known as the Ruisseau de Caussiste on its upper reaches, is a tributary of the Gave de Pau and has its source in the municipality as well as the Ruisseau d'Alli, a tributary of the Nès.

Mayor's office ( Mairie ) of Berbérust-Lias

Wash house

Road sign

history

The former municipality of Lias joined the municipality of Berbérust in 1846, which from then on bears the name Berbérust-Lias.

Toponymy

The place names Berbérust and Lias are called Berberust and Liàs in the Occitan language . The origin of both names is unclear, although Berberust certainly has a pre-Latin origin.

The community's nicknames are Eths arrenards ( German the foxes ) for Berbérust and Eths taishons ( German the badgers ) for Lias.

Toponyms and mentions of Berbérust were:

a Burburust (12th or 13th century, 1309 and 1313, copial book of the Viscounts of Lavedan , called Livre vert de Bénac ),
a Burburust (1313, Tax List Debita regi Navarre ),
De Barbarusto (1342, Tarbes Church Register ),
de Burburusto (1379, Prokuration Tarbes),
Burburust (1384 and 1403, Livre vert de Bénac ),
Berberust (1750, 1793 and 1801, map from Cassini , Notice Communale or Bulletin des lois ),
Berbérust-Lias (1846).

Toponyms and mentions of Lias were:

de Lias (12th or 13th century and 1313, Livre vert de Bénac or Tax List Debita regi Navarre ),

de Lias (1384 and 1493, Livre vert de Bénac ),

De Liassio (1342, Tarbes Parish Register ),

de Lassio (1379, Prokuration Tarbes);

Liaas , (1429, Bigorre County Census),

Lias (1750, 1793 and 1801, map from Cassini , Notice Communale or Bulletin des lois ).

Population development

With the merger of Berbérust and Lias, the population reached a peak of around 245. In the following period, the size of the community fell to 40 with short recovery phases until the turn of the millennium, before a phase of growth set in, which has recently stagnated again.

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011	2017
Residents	93	69	58	54	48	40	51	58	50

Until 1836 only residents of Berbérust, from 1841 of Berbérust-Lias
From 1962 official figures without residents with second residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 2006, INSEE from 2011

Attractions

Parish Church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in Berbérust

The little church dedicated to the Assumption of Mary was built in the 17th and 18th centuries. Due to the earthquake of 1854, all of its walls are cracked, especially at the corners of the wall. The church has a single nave and a side chapel and in earlier times was headed by a non- clerical abbot who owned his house next to the church. Inside the church, grave slabs have been covered by a new cement floor. The altarpiece in the Claverie workshops in Lourdes bears a certain resemblance to the one in the church in Gez-ez-Angles, with the depiction of Mary made of gilded wood, surrounded by putti , against a blue background. As in the church in Juncalas, his medallion shows the scene of Mary's Assumption into Heaven, which is framed by John the Baptist and the Apostle Peter . Above the three-part tabernacle there is a roughly executed statuette with Mary and the baby Jesus and an imposing cross. The tabernacle dates from 1670 except for the wings, which date from the 18th century. A votive plaque made of white marble thanks the Good Shepherd for the return of the French prisoners of war in 1945.

Parish Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Lias

The church dedicated to John the Baptist is even smaller and nested in the surrounding buildings. Your bell gable has double recesses. The entrance to the porch from the beginning of the 17th century is protected by a canopy. Inside the church, the altarpiece has an oil painting showing the crucifixion of Christ . Mary and the apostle John stand next to the cross. It is framed by two statues made of gilded wood, depicting John the Baptist on the left and Saint Faustus on the right in the clothes of a bishop . The ceiling is covered with wood paneling . The gallery has a balustrade made of twisted wood.