Lées-Athas

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Lées-Athas
Lées-Athas (France)
Lées-Athas
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton Oloron-Sainte-Marie-1
Community association Haut Bearn
Coordinates 42 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 37 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 37 ′  W
height 417–2,503 m
surface 44.81 km 2
Residents 265 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 6 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 64490
INSEE code 64330

Town hall and school of Lées-Athas

Lées-Athas is a French municipality with 265 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Aquitaine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Oloron-Sainte-Marie and the Canton of Oloron-Sainte-Marie-1 (until 2015: Canton of Accous ).

The residents are called Lésans or Lésannes .

geography

Lées-Athas is about 30 km south of Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the Aspetal in the historic province of Béarn . The municipality borders on the autonomous community of Navarre in northern Spain to the west .

The highest point in the municipality is the Pic d'Anie ( 2504  m ).

The place is surrounded by the neighboring communities:

Osse-en-Aspe Bedous
Arette Neighboring communities Accous
Lescun

Lées-Athas is located in the catchment area of ​​the Adour River .

The Gave d'Aspe , which forms the Gave d'Oloron further downstream at the confluence with the Gave d'Ossau , flows through the municipality with its tributaries Ruisseau de Copen and Malugar, as does the Ruisseau l'Aidy, a tributary of the Gave de Lourdios, and the Lauga, a tributary of the Gave de Lescun.

history

Barrow at the edge of the steep slopes on Pic Oueillarisse and Pic Eygarri in the south of the municipality testify an early settlement of the land. In the 1385 census in Béarn, 29 households were recorded in Lées and it was noted that the place belonged to the Bailliage of the Archdeaconate of Aspe. The community owned a lay monastery, vassal of the Viscount of Béarn. Until the 18th century, the community had little development and on the other hand experienced vicissitudes. A plague reigned from 1652 to 1656, killing twenty people in two months of 1654. The development of the community was supported by the construction of a Royal Navy port in what is now the district Athas In the 18th century, which allowed to cut wood to Bayonne on the To be transported by water. The wood was pulled from the mountains to the port of Ochsen and loaded onto the rafts between March and July, the time of the flood. Up to 300 rafts operated on the Gave every year.

The former municipalities of Lées and Athas merged to form the municipality of Lées-Athas when the territories were reorganized at the beginning of the French Revolution between 1790 and 1794.

Toponyms and mentions of Lées were:

  • Léès (1215, copy book of the Bishop of Oloron),
  • Leet (1449, Regulations of the Supreme Court of the Béarn),
  • Les (1538, manuscript collection from the 16th to 18th centuries),
  • Sancta-Maria de Lées (1603, publications by the Diocese of Oloron ),
  • Lees (1750, map by Cassini ),
  • Léez (1793, Notice Communale),
  • Lées (1801, Bulletin des lois ) and
  • Léès (1863, Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées).

Toponyms and mentions of Athas were:

  • Atas (1250, for d'Aspe , 14th century manuscript),
  • Sanctus Felix d'Atas and Sent Phelip d'Ataas (1608, publications of the Diocese of Oloron),
  • Atas (1750, map by Cassini),
  • Attaas (1793, Notice Communale) and
  • Athas (1863, Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées).

Population development

After a peak in the number of inhabitants of around 950 in the first half of the 19th century, the number fell to around 240 inhabitants during short periods of recovery by the 1980s, before moderate growth began to a level of around 290 inhabitants, which has remained until today becomes.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2009 2017
Residents 348 312 278 243 241 264 292 291 265
From 1962 official figures without residents with a secondary residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 2006, INSEE from 2009

Attractions

Parish Church of Notre-Dame in Lées
  • Parish church in Lées, dedicated to Mary , mother of Jesus Christ . From the original, simple church from the 12th century, only the apse with a cauldron vault and some of its ornate consoles are left over the centuries . In the 15th century, a window with a keel arch was added in the south aisle as a striking architectural element . A fire in 1569 devastated the church, which was restored in the 18th century. The entrance portal under the porch dates from 1790. The 3 m high entrance area is designed with blocks of marble made of Campan , which is characterized by bright red and green colors. A Christ monogram is engraved on a wall. The usually contained stylized Chi ("X") is missing at this point, unless one interprets the cross from the Rho ("P") and a horizontal line accordingly . In the lower area, an “S” for “Salvator” ( German  savior ) wraps around the “P” to symbolize the salvation of humanity through the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The signs for alpha and omega are also shown as an accompanying motif, a symbol for the comprehensive, for God as the beginning and end. Above the marble walls of the porch with are limestone , sandstone and Ophit built, however, the apse of bush-hammered ornamental limestone from Arudy .
Parish Church of Saint-Félix in Athas
  • Parish Church in Athas. The single-nave church dates from the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century. Like the parish church in Lées, it was set on fire in 1569, but it was rebuilt in the 17th century and restored in the 19th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

Ossau-Iraty

Agriculture and tourism determine the municipality's economy. Lées-Athas is located in the AOC zones of Ossau-Iraty , a traditionally made semi-hard cheese made from sheep's milk and the ham "Kintoa".

Active workplaces by industry on December 31, 2015
total = 18

education

The community has a public primary school .

sport and freetime

The long-distance hiking trail GR 10 from Hendaye on the Atlantic to Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean leads through parts of the municipality.

The Val de Copen, in the communes of Lées-Athas and Lescun, is one of the protected natural sites in the Pyrenees with its rich flora and fauna.

traffic

Lées-Athas can be reached via Route nationale 134 and Routes départementales 237 and 441.

Personalities

Bernard Pourailly, born June 21, 1775 in Lées-Athas, died June 30, 1828 in Paris , was a French general during the French Revolution and the First Empire .

Web links

Commons : Lées-Athas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lées-Athas ( fr ) Visites en Aquitaine. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 17, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / visites.aquitaine.fr
  2. ↑ géoportail - Lées-Athas ( fr ) Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ Ma commune: Lées-Athas ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  4. ^ A b c Paul Raymond: Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées ( fr ) In: Dictionnaire topographique de la France . Imprimerie nationale. Pp. 16, 98, 1863. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  5. ^ Conseil regional d'Aquitaine: Port d'Athas ( fr ) Visites en Aquitaine. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 17, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / visites.aquitaine.fr
  6. ↑ a b c Notice Communale Lées-Athas ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b David Rumsey Historical Map Collection France 1750 ( en ) David Rumsey Map Collection: Cartography Associates. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  8. ↑ Notice Communale Attaas ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  9. ↑ Populations légales 2014 Commune de Lées-Athas (64330) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  10. ↑ Conseil régional d'Aquitaine: Église Notre-Dame ( fr ) Visites en Aquitaine. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 17, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / visites.aquitaine.fr
  11. ^ Conseil régional d'Aquitaine: Chrisme dans l'église Notre-Dame ( fr ) Visites en Aquitaine. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 17, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / visites.aquitaine.fr
  12. ↑ église paroissiale Notre-Dame ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  13. ↑ église paroissiale Saint-Félix ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  14. ↑ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité: Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  15. ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Lées-Athas (64330) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  16. ^ École élémentaire ( fr ) National Ministry of Education. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  17. ↑ GR®10: la traversée des Pyrénées ( fr ) Comité Régional de la Randonnée Pédestre Midi-Pyrénées. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  18. ↑ Le Val de Copen ( fr , PDF) Conservatoire d'espaces naturels Aquitaine. Retrieved August 17, 2017.