Hautaget

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Hautaget
Hauthaget
Hautaget coat of arms
Hautaget (France)
Hautaget
region Occitania
Department Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement Bagneres-de-Bigorre
Canton La Vallée de la Barousse
Community association Neste Barousse
Coordinates 43 ° 3 '  N , 0 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 3 '  N , 0 ° 27'  E
height 475-630 m
surface 71.35 km 2
Residents 54 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 1 inhabitant / km 2
Post Code 65150
INSEE code 65217

Mairie Hautaget

Hautaget ( Occitan : Hauthaget ) is a French commune with 54 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitania region ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre and to the community association Neste Barousse, founded in 2016 . The inhabitants are called Hautagettois .

geography

Hautaget is located in the foothills of the Pyrenees between the Comminges and Lannemezan plateau , ten kilometers southwest of Lannemezan and around 40 kilometers southeast of the city of Tarbes . In the north, the 1.35 km² municipal area extends to within a few meters of the Neste River . The community does not have a grown town center and consists of the three villages Cazenave ( 560  m ), Les Touas ( 570  m ) and Sempé ( 565  m ) as well as several individual farms. Around the center of the community are the church, cemetery and mairie on a ridge at 575  m, isolated from the established village structures. In the municipality there are meadows, fields and trees in constant change, in the north there is a somewhat larger forest area.

Hautaget is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Anères in the north, Nestier in the east, Bize in the south, Montsérié in the southwest and Bizous in the west.

Place name

The spellings Hotaget and Hautiget have been handed down from the years 1790 and 1801 . Hautaget is already mentioned on a Cassini map from the late 18th century . The name comes from the Gaskognischen ( haut = high ) and haget stands for beech . The Latin terms altus (= high) and fagetum (= beech) can be seen as the origin .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 68 59 55 43 30th 31 43 54
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • 19th century Saint-Vincent church with a statue of the Virgin and Child
  • "Montjoie" ( mountain of joy ) called replica of the crusader castle of the same name north of Jerusalem, 300 meters south of the church
  • Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes chapel in the village of Les Touas, built at the end of the 19th century
  • Floor cross in the village of Cazenave

  • Saint Vincent Church

  • Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes chapel

Economy and Infrastructure

Hautaget is an agricultural community with four farmers who mainly raise cattle.

From Hautaget there are road links to Montsérié , Nestier and Bize . In Lannemezan , ten kilometers away, there is a connection to the Autoroute A 64 . Lannemezan station is on the Toulouse – Bayonne railway line .

supporting documents

  1. ^ M. Grosclaude and JF Le Nail: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes des Hautes-Pyrénées , 2000
  2. ↑ toponym on cassini.ehess.fr
  3. ↑ Hautaget on cassini.ehess.fr (French)
  4. ↑ Hautaget on insee.fr
  5. ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)

Web links

Commons : Hautaget  - collection of images