Denguin

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Denguin
Denguin Coat of Arms
Denguin (France)
Denguin
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement Pau
Canton Artix and Pays de Soubestre
Community association Pau Bearn Pyrenees
Coordinates 43 ° 22 ′  N , 0 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 22 ′  N , 0 ° 30 ′  W
height 120-271 m
surface 12.29 km 2
Residents 1,747 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 142 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 64230
INSEE code 64198
Website www.denguin.fr/

Town Hall ( Mairie ) Denguin
Town center
Saint-Pierre church

Denguin is a French commune with 1,747 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is part of the canton of Artix et Pays de Soubestre (until 2015: canton of Lescar ) in the Pau arrondissement .

geography

The municipality is located at the foot of the Pyrenees , around 15 kilometers west of Pau , on the right (northeast) bank of the Gave de Pau river . Denguin is part of the Pau agglomeration and is crossed by the A64 autoroute , which corresponds to the E80 and leads from Bayonne to Pau.

The two settlements Vignoles and Mounou-Bergé also belong to the municipality .

history

In the Middle Ages, Denguin was under the Bailiwick of Pau and there was a lay monastery on site that was dependent on the Vice-County of Béarn . Such monasteries, called Abbaye laïque , were very typical of the French Pyrenees region at the time. The archivist Paul Raymond calculated in the 19th century that there were 46 taxable households ( Feux fiscaux ) in Denguin in 1385 .

In 1654 a barony was formed, which included the places Denguin, Vignoles and Aussevielle and was subordinate to the Vice-County of Béarn.

Toponyms

In ancient scriptures, Denguin also appears under the following names:

  • Denguii in the 11th century in the cartulary of Morlaàs
  • Danginum 1101, ibid
  • Dengui 1104 in the cartulary of Lescar
  • Dengunum and Denguinum in the 13th century in the Titres de Béarn
  • Danguii 1385 in the Censier de Béarn
  • Dengii 1402 ibid
  • Dengun 1535 in the Réformation de Béarn
  • Danguin 1675 ibid

The district of Vignoles was also known by the following names:

  • Binholes 1286 in the Titres de Béarn
  • Vinholes 1385 in the Censier de Béarn

coat of arms

Blazon : a gold and green roughened heart shield in silver.

Population development

year 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2009
Residents 407 377 386 473 496 749 969 1,322 1,462 1,726

economy

Denguin is one of the communities that is allowed to market its hard cheese made from sheep's milk under the protected designation of origin Ossau-Iraty AOC .

Attractions

  • Saint-Pierre church from the 18th century

Personalities

The famous French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu was born on August 1st, 1930 in Denguin and grew up there.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Paul Raymond: Dictionnaire topographique Béarn-Pays basque .
  2. ↑ Cartulaire de l'évêché de Lescar . In: Pierre de Marca: Les preuves de l'histoire de Béarn .
  3. ↑ Titres de la vicomté de Béarn , Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
  4. ↑ Manuscrit du XIV e siècle , Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
  5. ^ Manuscrit du XVI e siècle au XVIII e siècle , Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Web links

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