Mauléon-Barousse

Mauléon-Barousse Maulion (de Varossa)
region	Occitania
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Bagneres-de-Bigorre
Canton	La Vallée de la Barousse
Community association	Neste Barousse
Coordinates	42 ° 58 '  N , 0 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 58 '  N , 0 ° 34'  E
height	557-1,604 m
surface	5.49 km 2
Residents	95 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	17 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	65370
INSEE code	65305
Partial view of Mauléon-Barousse

Mauléon-Barousse ( Maulion (de Varossa) in Gaskognisch ) is a French commune with 95 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 municipality of Neste Barousse . Its inhabitants call themselves Mauléonnais / Mauléonnaises .

geography

Mauléon-Barousse is located around 50 kilometers southeast of the city of Tarbes in the east of the Hautes-Pyrénées department on the border with the Haute-Garonne department. The community consists of the village of Mauléon-Barousse, a few groups of houses and a few individual farms. Large parts of the community are mountainous and forested. Here L'Ourse de Ferrère and L'Ourse de Sost to the river unite Ourse . The highest point of the municipality is the Soum d'Olives in the southeast of the municipality. In terms of traffic, the community is located on the D925 and D924 only a few kilometers west of the N125 .

history

In 1120 a Freiherr (Baron) Bernard de Mauléon-Soule is mentioned. He is considered to be the founder of the village. The place is mentioned indirectly (de Mauleon) by name for the first time in 1184 in the copy book of Berdoues. In the Middle Ages, Mauléon-Barousse was part of the County of Barousse in the Armagnac region , which in turn was part of the Gascogne province. The place was the center and the administrative seat of the Barousse. The parish belonged to the district La Barthe from 1793 to 1801. In addition, Mauléon-Barousse was the capital of the canton of Mauléon-Barousse from 1793 to 2015 . The municipality has been part of the Bagnères-de-Bigorre arrondissement since 1801.

Population development

year	1793	1851	1906	1931	1936	1946	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2014
Residents	610	908	501	506	432	289	245	250	246	177	130	138	121	112
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

• Castle Château de Mauléon-Barousse (11th to 14th century;. Private property)
• Manoir de Dutrey mansion dating from 1747
• Saint-Laurent village church from the 18th century
• Saint Blaise Chapel
• old half-timbered houses
• Source des Pradettes village fountain
• Memorial to the Fallen
• Waterfall Cascade de Serviassa
• La Maison des sources museum ; Water theme

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  Château de Mauléon-Barousse castle

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  old half-timbered house

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  L'Ourse de Ferrère and Mauléon-Barousse

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  L'Ourse de Sost and Mauléon-Barousse

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  Association of L'Ourse de Sost (left) and L'Ourse de Ferrère to the Ourse

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  Source des Pradettes village fountain

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  Saint Blaise Chapel

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  Saint Laurent village church

Web links

Commons : Mauléon-Barousse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Location of the place in France
• Mauléon-Barousse on the IGN side
• Saint Laurent village church
• Sights of the community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen
2. ↑ Website of the museum ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.