Macaye
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
| Arrondissement | Bayonne | |
| Canton | Baïgura et Mondarrain | |
| Community association | Pays Basque | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 20 ′ N , 1 ° 19 ′ W | |
| height | 113-892 m | |
| surface | 19.75 km 2 | |
| Residents | 587 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 30 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 64240 | |
| INSEE code | 64364 | |
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Macaye is a French municipality with 587 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Aquitaine ). The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement of Bayonne and the canton of Baïgura et Mondarrain (until 2015: canton Hasparren ).
The name of the municipality is Makea in the Basque language . The residents are named accordingly Makear .
geography
Macaye is located approx. 60 km southeast of Bayonne in the historic province of Labourd in the French part of the Basque Country .
The highest point in the municipality is Mont Baïgura ( 892 m ).
Macaye is surrounded by the neighboring communities:
| Cambo-les-Bains | Hasparren | |
| Louhossoa |
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| Bidarray | Ossès |
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Macaye is located in the Adour river basin . The Mouline River, a tributary of the Nive , crosses the municipality's territory.
history
Several cromlechs in the district of Mendizabale and on the Pic de Mokorreta indicate a prehistoric settlement of the area. 1154 bought Roger de Belzunce the Vicomté of Macaye from the Vicomte de Dax and was thus a vassal of the English king since the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry Plantagenet . At the end of the Hundred Years War , Arnaud IV, landlord of Belzunce d'Ayherre, Viscount of Macaye and Lissague, and his son Jean took part in the reconquest of Labord from England under the command of Gaston IV , Viscount des Béarn, and set the English rule an end. In the spring of 1451 the peace treaty was signed at the Belzunce Castle in Ayherre. During this time the village developed on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela . The Vicomté came into the possession of the Castagnoles in the 17th century and passed into the hands of the Haraneder family through marriage in 1719. Nicolas de Haraneder, the last Viscount of Macaye, was a member of the Labourd nobility in the Estates General from 1789 on the eve of the French Revolution . In 1790 Macaye became the headquarters of a canton which, in addition to Macaye, included the municipalities of Mendionde and Louhossoa. During the reign of terror , like many surrounding villages, Macaye was declared a commune infâme because of its proximity to the Spanish border . As a result of the decree of March 3, 1794, most of the residents were deported to neighboring departments.
Toponyms and mentions of Macaye were:
- Paganduru and Pagandurua (1249),
- Maqueyagua and Maqueya (1311),
- Macayagua (1344),
- Maccaie (1399),
- Maccaie (1599, deeds of the Kingdom of Navarre),
- Maquaie and Sanctus-Stephanus de Macaye (1683, collations of the Diocese of Bayonne ),
- Maccaye (1750, map by Cassini ),
- Macaye (1793, Notice Communale),
- Maccaye (1801, Bulletin des lois ) and
- Macaye (1863, Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées).
Population development
After peaking the number of inhabitants of around 870 in the first half of the 19th century, the number fell to around 460 inhabitants during short recovery phases by the 1980s, before the trend reversed and moderate growth set in.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2009 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 504 | 512 | 468 | 463 | 476 | 529 | 530 | 554 | 587 |
Attractions
- Parish church consecrated to Saint Stephen . The church was built in the 17th century in the middle of a cemetery on which there are numerous disc-shaped grave steles, called hilarri . Its bell gable is a typical example of church buildings in Labourd. The floor of the entrance porch is covered with grave slabs. Inside, galleries on several levels surround the single-nave nave . As is customary in all churches in the Basque Country, the seats in the galleries are traditionally reserved for men, as in the Basque Country men and women stay separately during mass . The parish church has a baroque altarpiece in its choir made of painted wood . It consists of three panels containing paintings framed by pilasters and serpentine columns. The whole thing is completed by sculptures , statues and bas-reliefs .
- Macaye Castle. After acquiring the Vicomté, the Belzunce family had a noble residence built at the site called Paganduru in the 12th century . The region was also hit by the effects of the Huguenot Wars , 'and in 1569 the castle was destroyed by fire and subsequently abandoned. After the Vicomté was taken over by the Castagnoles in 1640, the castle was rebuilt with an architecture typical of the 17th century in the Basque Country.
Economy and Infrastructure
Agriculture and services are the main economic drivers of the community. The Onetik cheese dairy produces cheese from cow, sheep and goat milk, including the Ossau-Iraty and the famous Bleu des Basques . Macaye is located in the AOC zones of Ossau-Iraty as well as the pig breed and ham "Kintoa".
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education
The community has a public preschool.
sport and freetime
Hiking trails lead to the Mont Ursuya ( 678 m ) and the Mont Baïgura ( 892 m ), where the sport of paragliding can be practiced.
traffic
Macaye is crossed by Routes départementales 119 and 252.
Personalities
- Ganix de Macaye, was a smuggler and involved in the First Carlist War (1833-1840).
- Morton H. Levine, born in California at the beginning of the 20th century , died on January 1, 1982, was an American anthropologist . His research in the field of hematology in the 1960s related to peculiarities of the Basque population. His studies, which he carried out in the communities of Macaye and Ahetze , showed a high incidence of blood group 0 with Rhesus factor negative among the population.
- Ramuntxo Camblong, born on November 11, 1940 in Macaye, is a French politician of the centrist Parti nationaliste basque .
Web links
- Website of the Onetik dairy in Macaye (French)
- Website of the AOP Ossau-Iraty association (French)
- Information on the “Kintoa” ham on the Montagne Basque Tourist Office website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lieux - toponymie: Makea (Lapurdi Ekialdea (-a)) ( fr ) euskaltzaindia . Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ↑ géoportail - Macaye ( fr ) Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière . Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ↑ Ma commune: Macaye ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ↑ Macaye ( fr ) Visites en Aquitaine. Archived from the original on September 7, 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 September 7, 2017.
- ↑ Pierrette Bruyères: Rue de Belzunce ( fr , PDF) parish of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ^ A b Paul Raymond: Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées ( fr ) In: Dictionnaire topographique de la France . Imprimerie nationale. P. 107, 1863. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ^ Jean-Baptiste Orpustan: Nouvelle toponymie basque ( fr ) University of Bordeaux . S. 59. 2006. Accessed September 7, 2017.
- ^ David Rumsey Historical Map Collection France 1750 ( en ) David Rumsey Map Collection: Cartography Associates. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ↑ a b Notice Communale Macaye ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ↑ Populations légales 2014 Commune de Macaye (64364) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ^ Conseil regional d'Aquitaine: Eglise Saint-Etienne ( fr ) Visites en Aquitaine. Archived from the original on September 7, 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 September 7, 2017.
- ^ Conseil régional d'Aquitaine: Retable de l'église Saint-Etienne ( fr ) Visites en Aquitaine. Archived from the original on September 7, 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 September 7, 2017.
- ^ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité - Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Macaye (64364) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ^ École maternelle ( fr ) National Ministry of Education. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
