Esquièze-Sère

Esquièze-Sère ; Esquiesa e Cèra
region	Occitania
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Argelès-Gazost
Canton	La Vallée des Gaves
Community association	Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves
Coordinates	42 ° 53 ' N , 0 ° 0' E Coordinates: 42 ° 53 ' N , 0 ° 0' E
height	659-1,126 m
surface	1.52 km 2
Residents	401 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	264 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	65120
INSEE code	65168

Esquièze-Sère ( Esquiesa e Cèra in Gaskognisch ) is a French commune with 401 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitania region ; it belongs to the Argelès-Gazost arrondissement and the canton of La Vallée des Gaves .

location

Esquièze-Sère is located in the south of the Hautes-Pyrénées department, around 40 km (as the crow flies) south-southwest of Tarbes . Most of the village is located in the valley and on the southwest slope of the Soum de la Moustayou mountain . Esquièze is on the Bastan River , and the other districts are nearby. The entire municipality is also located in the Pyrenees National Park and is part of the Lavedan region and its sub-region Vallée de Barège .

The community consists of Esquièze, Lanne and Sère, the hamlet of Lacaret and a few individual farms.

history

In the early Middle Ages the rulership changed frequently (Visigoths, Basques, Franks, Saracens). After that, the place was under the rule of the Kingdom of Aquitaine and the Duchy of Gascony for centuries. From 900 to 1609 there was a county of Bigorre within the aforementioned areas. A sub-area of this rule was the Lavedan region , which Esquièze-Sère was part of. During the Hundred Years War Esquièze-Sère was sometimes under English, sometimes under French rule. From 1425 to 1609 the place belonged as part of the county of Bigorre to the county of Foix, which is only loosely connected to France . Because the last ruler of this county, King Henry II of the House of Bourbon, ascended the throne of France (as Henry IV) in 1589, the places in the region were crown domains from 1609 to 1789. The municipality belonged to the District of Argelès from 1793 to 1801. It was also part of the canton of Luz-Saint-Sauveur from 1793 to 2015 (1793–1962 under the name of Canton Luz ). With the exception of the years 1926 to 1942 (Arrondissement Bagnères) Esquièze-Sère was administratively part of the Arrondissement Argelès-Gazost since 1801. The two districts are first mentioned under (Sère) Bernardus de Cera (1037/1040) and (Esquièze) Ezii Guilhermi de Squisa (in the copial book of Bigorre in the 12th century). Until 1846 the community part was an independent community under the name Sère-Barèges (1836: 117 inhabitants).

Population development

year	1793	1800	1851	1856	1866	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Residents	250	251	413	395	433	405	562	487	465	503	443	500	464	418	383
Sources: Cassini and INSEE