Ger (Hautes-Pyrénées)
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region | Occitania | |
Department | Hautes-Pyrénées | |
Arrondissement | Argelès-Gazost | |
Canton | Lourdes-2 | |
Community association | Agglomération Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées | |
Coordinates | 43 ° 3 ′ N , 0 ° 2 ′ W | |
height | 390-720 m | |
surface | 1.94 km 2 | |
Residents | 156 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 80 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 65100 | |
INSEE code | 65197 | |
View of the center of Ger |
Ger is a French commune with 156 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 Gérois and Géroises .
geography
Ger is located about five kilometers south of Lourdes in its catchment area ( Aire urbaine ) in the historic county of Bigorre .
Ger is surrounded by the six neighboring communities:
Lugagnan | Saint-Créac | |
Viger | ||
Agos-Vidalos | Geu | Berberust Lias |
Population development
After records began, the population rose to a high of around 225 in the second half of the 19th century. In the period that followed, the size of the community fell to a low of around 115, before a period of growth, with brief recovery periods until the 1960s , which has shown strong growth, especially at the turn of the millennium, but has recently shown a certain stagnation.
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2017 |
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Residents | 113 | 117 | 125 | 130 | 118 | 128 | 165 | 177 | 156 |
Attractions
- Parish Church of Saint-Gilles
Economy and Infrastructure
Ger is located in the AOC zones of the Porc noir de Bigorre pig breed and the Jambon noir de Bigorre ham .
traffic
Ger is crossed by Routes départementales 13, 713 and the four-lane 821, the former Route nationale 21 .
Personalities
René Sylvain Edouard Billères, born on August 29, 1910 in Ger, died on October 2, 2004 in Lourdes, was a French politician. During the Second World War he was captured as an officer and held in German officers' camps. He was from 1946 to 1958 a member of the département in the National Assembly and from June 22, 1956 to May 14, 1958 Minister of Education, Youth and Sport. From September 22, 1974 to October 2, 1983 he was a member of the French Senate .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Informations sur la commune de Ger ( fr ) Marie-Pierre Manet. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
- ↑ Aire urbaine de Lourdes (242) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
- ↑ Notice Communale Ger ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
- ↑ Populations légales 2016 Commune de Ger (65197) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
- ↑ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité: Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
- ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Ger (65197) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
- ^ René, Sylvain, Edouard Billères ( fr ) French National Assembly . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
- ↑ BILLERES René ( fr ) Senate . Retrieved November 18, 2019.