Saint Laurent Brittany
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region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
Arrondissement | Pau | |
Canton | Pays de Morlaàs et du Montanérès | |
Community association | North Est Béarn | |
Coordinates | 43 ° 23 ′ N , 0 ° 12 ′ W | |
height | 249-346 m | |
surface | 10.59 km 2 | |
Residents | 434 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 41 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 64160 | |
INSEE code | 64488 | |
Town hall of Saint-Laurent-Bretagne |
Saint-Laurent-Bretagne is a French municipality with 434 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 Pau and the canton of Pays de Morlaàs et du Montanérès (until 2015: canton of Morlaàs ).
The name in the Gascognischen language is Sent-Laurenç-Bretanha .
The name of the parish is derived from St. Lawrence, a 13th century martyr who evangelized the Béarn and Brittany .
geography
Saint-Laurent-Bretagne is located approx. 20 km northeast of Pau in the historic province of Béarn .
The place is surrounded by the neighboring communities:
Riupeyrous | Monassut-Audiracq | |
Higuères-Souye | Abère | |
Gabaston | Sedzère | Lespourcy |
Saint-Laurent-Bretagne lies in the catchment area of the Adour River .
One of its tributaries, the Gabas , crosses the area of the municipality together with its tributary,
- the Ruisseau Labésiau and its tributary,
- the Ruisseau de Lapassade and its tributary,
- the Passade.
- the Ruisseau de Lapassade and its tributary,
The Lées , also called Grand Lées here , a tributary of the Lées of the same name , also irrigates the municipality with its tributary, the Arriou Maybé, which also rises in Saint-Laurent-Bretagne.
history
The municipality of Saint-Laurent-Bretagne was created after the merger of the municipalities of Saint-Laurent and Bretagne on October 16, 1842.
The area of the municipality has been populated since the Gallo-Roman times , as archaeological finds show. The former municipality of Brittany is crossed by an ancient road, an old pilgrimage route . The two villages were first mentioned on the occasion of the census in 1385. Seven houses were counted in Saint-Laurent and six in Brittany. Both villages belonged to the Bailliage of Pau. They were subordinate to two different landlords , these in turn the Baron von Gerderest . Saint-Laurent, Brittany and Gabaston made up a parish that was part of the Archdeaconate of Vic-Bilh, which was under the diocese of Lescar . There was a lay monastery in Brittany mentioned in a listing by Jacques de Latapie in 1674. In 1691 the landlord of Saint-Laurent married the daughter of the musketeer Henri d'Aramitz. The titleholders of Brittany came from the Latapie family from Morlaàs in the 18th century .
Toponyms and mentions of Saint-Laurent were:
- Sent-Laurents (13th century, fors de Béarn , manuscript from the 14th century),
- Sent-Laurens (1538, reformation de Béarn , manuscript collection from the 16th to 18th centuries),
- Saint Laurens (1750, map by Cassini ),
- Saint Laurent Bretagne (1793, Notice Communale ),
- Saint-Laurent (1801, Bulletin des Lois ) and
- Saint-Laurent-Bretagne (1863, Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées).
Toponyms and mentions of Brittany were:
- Bretanhe (1385, census in the Béarn),
- Bretaigne (1700, count in Brittany),
- Brittany (1750, 1793 and 1801, map from Cassini, Notice Communale and Bulletin des Lois, respectively ).
Population development
The parish peaked in size with 565 inhabitants in the middle of the 19th century. As a result, the number of inhabitants was reduced to around 280 with short recovery phases up to the 1970s. Then a growth phase began that continues to this day.
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2009 | 2017 |
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Residents | 301 | 297 | 278 | 325 | 349 | 362 | 413 | 424 | 434 |
Town twinning
Saint-Laurent-Bretagne maintains a city partnership since 1991 with Loarre in the autonomous region of Aragon in Spain.
Attractions
- Parish church in Saint-Laurent, dedicated to St. Lawrence. It was restored in 1820 and 1876 and again in 1878 with the focus on the two aisles . The year "1935" on the bell tower above the entrance porch indicates a new building or renovation of the church. The tabernacle of the main altar is made of gilded wood. Two small serpentine columns frame the front of the shrine, two of its sides, and two more the outer ends. A ciborium is depicted as a relief on its door . Two statuettes of unidentified saints are on the sides. The Annunciation of the Lord is illustrated in reliefs on the wings with Mary on the left and the Archangel Gabriel on the right. The central part of the altar and the volutes date from the second half of the 17th century, the wings and statuettes could have been made between 1740 and 1760 by Jean Claverie, father and son from Lourdes . At the same time, these artists created a half-relief depicting God the Father . Other items of equipment date from the 18th and 19th centuries and are registered as national cultural assets.
- Parish church in Brittany, dedicated to the Apostle Peter . Today's church is a new building from 1935 north of the former, demolished church. Two glass windows are the work of the glass painter Pierre Arcencam. Inside the single-nave nave there is a marble grave slab from 1650. This covers the burial place of the Latapie family, landlords and abbots of the lay monastery . The family coat of arms is carved on the plate. The church owns u. a. a painting from 1968 illustrating the scene in which Simon of Cyrene carries the cross of Jesus in the Passion . It is a copy of Titian's work .
Economy and Infrastructure
Agriculture is traditionally the most important economic factor in the municipality.
education
The municipality has a public pre-school with 25 students in the 2017/2018 school year.
sport and freetime
The long-distance hiking trail GR 653 from Toulouse to Jaca , which corresponds to a section of the Via Tolosana , the southernmost of the four Way of St. James, leads through the southern part of the municipality.
traffic
Saint-Laurent-Bretagne can be reached via Routes départementales 7, 42, 286 and 943, the former Route nationale 643 , and is connected to Pau and other communes of the department by a line from the Transports 64 bus network .
Web links
- Atlas du Patrimoine Historique et Culturel with images from Saint-Laurent-Bretagne (French)
- "Transports 64" bus from the department (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saint-Laurent-Bretagne ( fr ) Gasconha.com. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ a b Saint-Laurent-Bretagne ( fr ) visites.aquitaine.fr. Archived from the original on December 6, 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 December 5, 2017.
- ↑ Ma commune: Saint-Laurent-Bretagne ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d Paul Raymond: Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées ( fr ) In: Dictionnaire topographique de la France . Imprimerie nationale. P. 36, 150. 1863. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ Demeure ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ a b David Rumsey Historical Map Collection France 1750 ( en ) David Rumsey Map Collection: Cartography Associates. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ a b Notice Communale Saint-Laurent-Bretagne ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ Notice Communale Bretagne ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ Populations légales 2014 Commune de Saint-Laurent-Bretagne (64488) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ Annuaire des villes jumelées ( fr ) Association française du conseil des communes et régions d'Europe. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
- ^ Eglise paroissiale Saint-Laurent ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ Église Saint-Pierre de Saint-Laurent-Bretagne ( fr ) visites.aquitaine.fr. Archived from the original on December 6, 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 December 5, 2017.
- ^ Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Saint-Laurent-Bretagne (64488) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ^ École maternelle ( fr ) National Ministry of Education. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
- ↑ GR® 653 - Sentier vers Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle: Toulouse - Jaca ( fr ) Comité départemental de la Randonnée pédestre des Pyrénées-Atlantiques (CDRP 64). Retrieved December 5, 2017.