Estigarde

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Estigarde
Estigarde (France)
Estigarde
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Country
Arrondissement Mont-de-Marsan
Canton Haute Lande Armagnac
Community association Landes d'Armagnac
Coordinates 44 ° 2 ′  N , 0 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 2 ′  N , 0 ° 7 ′  W
height 113-151 m
surface 29.65 km 2
Residents 121 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 4 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 40240
INSEE code 40096
Website www.estigarde-landes.fr

Parish Church of Saint-Laurent

Estigarde is a French municipality with 121 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of land in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Aquitaine ). The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Mont-de-Marsan and the canton of Haute Lande Armagnac (until 2015: canton of Gabarret ).

The name is also Estigarde in the Gascon language . According to various sources, it means "elevated sentry post".

The inhabitants are called Estigardais and Estigardaises .

geography

Estigarde is located about 35 km northeast of Mont-de-Marsan in the historic province of Armagnac in the historic province of Gascon on the eastern edge of the department.

Estigarde is surrounded by the neighboring communities:

Losse
Vielle-soubiran Neighboring communities Herré
Saint-Justin Saint-Julien-d'Armagnac
Créon-d'Armagnac

Estigarde is located in the catchment area of ​​the Adour River .

Tributaries of the Estampon cross the territory of the municipality:

  • the Ruisseau Rioulet,
  • the Ruisseau de Goutaille and
  • the Launet with its tributary,
    • the Ruisseau de Sourroulh.

history

The order of the Poor Clares in Mont-de-Marsan owned an extensive fiefdom in Estigarde in the Middle Ages . The community was on one of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela . The Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era were dominated by the clashes between English and French troops in the Hundred Years War , in the wake of the Huguenot Wars . The Gabardan region, in which the municipality is located, was located between French possessions and those of the English House of Plantagenet . Subsequently, fighting between Protestant and Catholic troops rocked the region. In the 19th century, the cultivation of pine trees and the extraction of tree sap began , which became the main sources of income for the community until the Second World War . The great forest fires of 1945 and 1949 led the residents to farming, and tree sap extraction was gradually abandoned. Due to the drainage of the swamps, the cultivation area could be doubled in the 1950s, especially for maize cultivation.

Population development

After records began, the population rose to a high of around 325 by the middle of the 19th century. In the period that followed, the size of the community fell to around 75 inhabitants during short recovery phases until the turn of the millennium, before a moderate growth phase began.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2010 2017
Residents 110 98 97 93 93 74 73 84 121
From 1962 official figures without residents with a second residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 2006, INSEE from 2010

Attractions

Parish Church of Saint-Laurent

The earlier church, built in the Middle Ages, was under the order of the Poor Clares. It was looted and set on fire in 1569 by Protestant troops led by Captain Thoiras. Today's church was rebuilt in the years 1892 and 1893 in neo-Gothic style and with a floor plan of a Latin cross . The single-nave nave with a length of one yoke is extended to the west by another yoke of the vestibule below the bell tower . This is flanked by a baptistery in the north and a staircase to the gallery in the south. Two side chapels open to the crossing . The rectangular choir is framed by two sacristies . The nave and the chapels are covered with false groin vaults, the choir with false ribbed vaults . The long building is covered with tiles, the hexagonal spire of the bell tower with slate .

Today's church has received only a few elements from the furnishings of the earlier church, such as a censer from the first half of the 17th century, a baptismal font probably from the 17th century, a holy water font from the 18th century and a lecture cross from the 17th century . or 18th century. All items date from 1569, the time it was looted by Protestant troops in the Huguenot Wars.

Eight stained glass windows are works by the glass painter Gustave Pierre Dagrant from Bordeaux , which were created in 1893 when today's church was being built. In addition to geometric representations, they show the following biblical people, motifs and symbols:

The neo-Gothic altar from the late 19th century deserves special attention with five statuettes depicting the Good Shepherd and the four evangelists , who can be recognized by their evangelist symbols .

Town hall and school

The building, which originally housed the mayor's offices as well as the school rooms, was built in 1919. With its white walls, which surround the windows with red bricks and the decoration of the roof ridge of wrought iron , the building is a typical example of the architectural style in the Third French Republic . The name of the community can be seen in red letters above the entrance. Today the building is still in good condition and still houses the mayor's offices.

Economy and Infrastructure

The farms around the cultivation of maize and asparagus and the poultry breeding of ducks and geese are the most important economic factors of the community.

Active workplaces by industry on December 31, 2015
total = 14

traffic

Estigarde can be reached via Routes départementales 51, 323 and 933N, the former Route nationale 133 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Estigarde ( fr ) Gasconha.com. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c Estigarde ( fr ) Conseil régional d'Aquitaine. Archived from the original on June 16, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  3. ↑ Landes ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  4. ↑ Ma commune: Estigarde ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  5. ↑ Notice Communale Estigarde ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ Populations légales 2015 Commune d'Estigarde (40096) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ église paroissiale Saint-Laurent ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ le mobilier de l'église paroissiale Saint-Laurent ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  9. ↑ ensemble de 8 verrières: Sacré-Coeur, Saint Laurent, Saint Vincent de Paul, monogrammes, Notre-Dame de Buglose (baies 0 à 6, 101) ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  10. ↑ autel, 2 gradins d'autel, tabernacle (maître-autel) ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  11. ↑ a b Patrimoine ( fr ) parish of Estigarde. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  12. ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune d'Estigarde (40096) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved April 3, 2018.