Ponsampere

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Ponsampère
Ponsan Pera
Ponsampère (France)
Ponsampere
region Occitania
Department Gers
Arrondissement Mirande
Canton Mirande-Astarac
Community association Astarac Arros en Gascogne
Coordinates 43 ° 27 '  N , 0 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 27 '  N , 0 ° 23'  E
height 176-295 m
surface 8.90 km 2
Residents 126 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 14 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 32300
INSEE code 32323

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges village church in Laffitte

Ponsampère ( Gascon : Ponsan Pera) is a French municipality with 126 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Gers in the region Occitania (2015 Midi-Pyrénées ); it belongs to the Arrondissement Mirande and the municipality of Astarac Arros en Gascogne . The residents call themselves Ponsannais / Ponsannaises .

geography

Ponsampère is about seven kilometers south-south-west of Mirande and 27 kilometers south-west of Auch in the south of the Gers department. The community consists of hamlets, numerous scattered settlements and individual farmsteads.

Neighboring municipalities are Berdoues in the north, east and south-east, Saint-Michel in the south, Bazugues in the south-west and west and Saint-Maur in the north-west.

history

In the Middle Ages, La Fitte-Loupière was in the dominion of Mirande and Ponsampère in the Kastlanei Moncassin within the county of Astarac in the historic Gascony region and shared their fate. La Fitte-Loupière and Ponsampère belonged to the Mirande district from 1793 to 1801. La Fitte-Loupière and Ponsampère have been assigned to the Arrondissement of Mirande since 1801 and belonged to the Canton of Mirande from 1793 to 2015 . The municipality has only existed in its current form since 1822. At that time, the former municipality of La Fitte-Loupière (1821: 103 inhabitants) merged with the municipality of Ponsampère (1821: 240 inhabitants) to form today's municipality. From 1972 to 1993 Ponsampère was part of the Berdoues municipality.

Population development

year 1793 1821 1886 1962 1968 1999 2006 2011 2016
Residents 379 343 401 142 109 118 116 106 135
today's municipality Sources: Cassini, Ponsampère Cassini, La Fitte-Loupière and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Pierre village church in Ponsampère
  • Notre-Dame-des-Neiges village church in Laffitte
  • Madonna statue
  • a total of seven wayside crosses
  • Memorial to the Fallen

traffic

The most important regional connection is the D279.

Web links

Commons : Ponsampère  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen