Hèches

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Hèches
Hèishas
Coat of arms of Hèches
Hèches (France)
Hèches
region Occitania
Department Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement Bagneres-de-Bigorre
Canton Neste, Aure and Louron
Community association Plateau de Lannemezan
Coordinates 43 ° 1 ′  N , 0 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 1 ′  N , 0 ° 22 ′  E
height 564-1,900 m
surface 35.44 km 2
Residents 616 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 17 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 65250
INSEE code 65218

Mairie Hèches

Hèches ( Occitan : Hèishas ) is a French commune with 616 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre and the community association Plateau de Lannemezan, which was founded in 2016 . The inhabitants are called Héchois .

geography

  • Hèches
  • Hechettes
  • Rebouc

The municipality of Hèches is located in the Pyrenees in the Bigorre an der Neste region , about ten kilometers south of Lannemezan and 45 kilometers north of the border with Spain . The municipal area of ​​35.44 km² extends over a five-kilometer section of the Nestetal as well as several side valleys and the wooded mountains in between, which in the north of the municipality reach heights of over 1000 meters, in the south of over 1500 meters above sea level. The highest point is marked by the Cap de Castillon at 1900  m in the southwestern tip of the municipality. To the left or to the west, the Neste is accompanied by the Canal de la Neste , which, via the Lannemezan plateau , feeds other rivers that have little water in summer. The municipality includes the three villages of Hèches, Héchettes and Rebouc as well as several small hamlets and individual mountain farms.

The highest mountain peaks in the municipality of Hèches:

west of the Nestetal:

  • Cap de Castillon 1900  m
  • Plo de Berdaoulou 1781  m
  • Cap de Paou 1769  m
  • Pic d'Arneille 1269  m
  • Crête de Suberpène 1268  m (rock formation)
  • Le Plagnet 1213  m
  • Le Mouné 1146  m
  • Cap de Brouca 1136  m
  • Plat de la Peyre 1093  m
  • Le Pourrasse 932  m
  • Mont Aurous 801  m

east of the Nestetal:

  • Borne des Trois Seigneurs 1516  m
  • Pène Haute 1451  m
  • Tieux 1379  m
  • Cap d'Estivère 1211  m
  • Mail de Gat 1138  m
  • Pic de Picharot 1129  m
  • Cap du Mont 1121  m
  • Cap de Curreu 1102  m
Neste bridge in Rebouc
Canal de la Neste in Hèches

Hèches is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Bazus-Neste in the north, Mazouau , Gazave and Bize in the northeast, Nistos in the east, Sarrancolin in the south, Beyrède-Jumet-Camous in the southwest, Esparros in the west and Labastide and Lortet in the northwest.

Place name

The place was first mentioned in 1333 as Feyssas . In 1387 the Latin name De Fexis followed . Finally, the name Heches appeared on a Cassini card at the end of the 18th century . In Gaskognischen the place was called hèisha = strip of land .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 664 2627 548 536 553 580 620 611
Source: Cassini and INSEE
Tower ruins of the Château de Hèches

Attractions

Monument to the fallen in Hèches
Monument to the fallen in Rebouc
  • Saint-Pierre church in the village of Hèches
  • Saint-Ebons church in Durf Rebouc
  • Saint-Pierre church in the village of Hèchettes
  • Remains of the castle tower
  • several wash houses ( lavoirs )
  • two memorials to those who fell in the world wars
  • several refuges for mountain hikers
  • several wayside crosses

  • Saint-Pierre church in the village of Hèche

  • Saint-Pierre church in the village of Hèchettes

  • Saint-Ebons church in Durf Rebouc

  • Lavoir in Hèches

  • Lavoir in Héchettes

  • Lavoir in Rebouc

  • Lavoir in the Léchan district

Economy and Infrastructure

In Hèches there is a primary school, a post office and a few small shops. There are 23 farms in the community (growing grain and vegetables, raising cattle, goats and sheep). In addition, the tourism sector is developing in the form of holiday home rentals.

The D 929 trunk road from Lannemezan to Bielsa, Spain, runs through Hèches in a north-south direction . There are other road connections to Bazus-Neste , Mazouau , Esparros , Labastide and Lortet . In the town of Lannemezan, ten kilometers away, there is a connection to the A 64 autoroute ; Lannemezan station is on the Toulouse – Bayonne railway line . Following the Nestetal was the railway line from Lannemezan to Arreau / Cadéac ( Ligne de Lannemezan à Arreau - Cadéac ) from 1897 to 1969 . On this route, Kèches had a train station and the district of Rebouc had a stop

  • Post Office Hèches

  • Former Hèches train station

supporting documents

  1. ^ "Dictionnaire toponymique des communes des Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarbes, Conseil Général des Hautes-Pyrénées, 2000" ( Toponymic Dictionary of the Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées ) by Michel Grosclaude and Jean-Francois Le Nail ( ISBN 2-9514810-1-2 )
  2. ↑ Hèches on cassini.ehess.fr (French)
  3. ↑ Hèches on insee.fr
  4. ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr

Web links

Commons : Hèches  - collection of images