Fontrailles

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Fontrailles
Fontrailles coat of arms
Fontrailles (France)
Fontrailles
region Occitania
Department Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement Tarbes
Canton Les Coteaux
Community association Communes du Pays de Trie et du Magnoac
Coordinates 43 ° 21 ′  N , 0 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 21 ′  N , 0 ° 21 ′  E
height 211-378 m
surface 8.99 km 2
Residents 151 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 17 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 65220
INSEE code 65177

Mayor's office ( Mairie ) of Fontrailles

Fontrailles is a French commune with 151 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region (before 2016: Midi-Pyrénées ). The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement of Tarbes and the canton of Les Coteaux (until 2015: canton of Trie-sur-Baïse ).

The inhabitants are called Fontraillais and Fontraillaises .

geography

Fontrailles is located about 26 kilometers northeast of Tarbes in the historic county of Bigorre on the northern border with the neighboring Gers department .

Fontrailles is surrounded by the seven neighboring communities:

Sarraguzan
( Gers Department ) 		Manas-Bastanous
(Gers department) 		Barcugnan
(Gers Department)
Bernadets debate Neighboring communities Duffort
(Gers department)
Trie-sur-Baïse Sadournin

Population development

After records began, the number of inhabitants rose to highs of around 505 each in the middle of the 19th century and again in the second half of the same century. In the following period, the size of the community decreased with short recovery phases until the second decade of the 21st century 140 inhabitants.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2017
Residents 215 211 172 153 146 147 151 140 151
From 1962 official figures excluding residents with a second residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 1999, INSEE from 2006

Attractions

  • Parish church of Martyre-de-Saint-Jean-Baptiste from the 17th to 18th centuries with two side chapels
  • Saint-Roch chapel from the 18th or 19th century

  • Parish Church of Martyre-de-Saint-Jean-Baptiste

  • Saint Roch chapel

Economy and Infrastructure

Noir de Bigorre ham

Fontrailles is located in the AOC zones of the Porc noir de Bigorre pig breed and the Jambon noir de Bigorre ham .

Active workplaces by industry on December 31, 2015
total = 28

traffic

Fontrailles is crossed by Routes départementales 17 (Gers: 3), 39 (Gers: 211), 40, 239 and 939, the former Route nationale 639 .

Personalities

Louis d'Astarac de Fontrailles, born around 1605 in Gascony , died on July 15, 1677, was Margrave of Marestang and Viscount of Fontrailles. He participated in the Cinq Mars conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu in 1642, in the Cabale des Importants in 1643 against Jules Mazarin and later in the Fronde . He then retired to his fiefdom and wrote his memoirs, which in particular illuminate his role in the Cinq Mars conspiracy and appeared in 1663.

Web links

Commons : Fontrailles  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hautes-Pyrénées ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ Notice Communale Fontrailles ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ Populations légales 2016 Commune de Fontrailles (65177) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  4. ↑ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité: Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  5. ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Fontrailles (65177) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ Louis d'Astarac de Fontrailles (160. – 1677) . Bibliothèque nationale de France . Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  7. ↑ Louis d'Astarac, vicomte de Fontrailles ( fr ) Éditions Larousse . Retrieved November 14, 2019.