Saint-Savin (Hautes-Pyrénées)

Saint Savin ; Sent Savin
region	Occitania
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Argelès-Gazost
Canton	La Vallée des Gaves
Community association	Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves
Coordinates	42 ° 59 ′ N , 0 ° 5 ′ E Coordinates: 42 ° 59 ′ N , 0 ° 5 ′ E
height	433-1,320 m
surface	3.86 km 2
Residents	373 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	97 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	65400
INSEE code	65396
Website	http://www.saint-savin65.com/

Saint-Savin ( Gascon Sent Savin ) is a French commune with 373 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region ; it belongs to the Argelès-Gazost arrondissement and the canton of La Vallée des Gaves .

location

Saint-Savin is located in the south of the Hautes-Pyrénées department, around 31 km (as the crow flies) south-southwest of Tarbes . The place is on the eastern slope of a mountain range and west of the Gave de Gavarnie in the vicinity of the Pyrenees National Park .

history

A Roman fort, the Palatium Aemilianum , once stood on the site of today's Saint-Savin Abbey . Already in the 4th century monks settled and founded a place called Bencer / Bencus . The abbey counted between 12 and 160 monks until its fall in 1790. In the early Middle Ages the rulership changed frequently (Visigoths, Basques, Franks, Saracens). After that, the place was under the rule of the Kingdom of Aquitaine and the Duchy of Gascony for centuries. From 900 to 1609 there was a county of Bigorre within the aforementioned areas. During the Hundred Years War , Saint-Savin was sometimes under English, sometimes under French rule. From 1425 to 1609 the place belonged as part of the County of Bigorre to the County of Foix, which is only loosely connected to France . Because the last ruler of this county, King Henry II of the House of Bourbon, ascended the throne of France (as Henry IV) in 1589, the places in the region were crown domains from 1609 to 1789. The municipality belonged to the District of Argelès from 1793 to 1801. In addition, it was from 1793 to 1801 canton capital of the canton of Saint-Savin and from 1801 to 2015 part of the canton of Argelès-Gazost (1793-1896 under the name of Canton Argelès ). With the exception of the years 1926 to 1942 (Arrondissement Bagnères), Saint-Savin was administratively part of the Arrondissement Argelès-Gazost from 1801. First mentioned by name as Solon around 103 in the copy book of Saint-Savin.

Population development

year	1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1846	1861	1876	1911	1921	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Residents	555	561	1,141	564	620	637	586	508	512	417	373	377	327	316	331	353	377	381
Sources: Cassini and INSEE