Salles-Mongiscard
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
| Arrondissement | Pau | |
| Canton | Orthez et Terres des Gaves et du Sel | |
| Community association | Lacq-Orthez | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 30 ′ N , 0 ° 50 ′ W | |
| height | 37-175 m | |
| surface | 5.84 km 2 | |
| Residents | 308 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 53 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 64300 | |
| INSEE code | 64500 | |
 Salles-Mongiscard Town Hall |
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Salles-Mongiscard is a French municipality with 308 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 Orthez et Terres des Gaves et du Sel (until 2015: canton of Orthez ).
The name in the Gascognischen language is Salas-Monguiscart .
The first part of the name of the community comes from the Germanic word for "hall" and indicates a castle. The second part is a combination of the Latin montem ( German mountain ) and the Germanic name "Wisishart". The residents are called Sallois and Salloises .
geography
Salles-Mongiscard is located about 50 kilometers northwest of Pau in the historic province of Béarn on the northern edge of the department.
The place is surrounded by the neighboring communities:
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Orthez |
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L'Hôpital-d'Orion Lanneplaà |
Salles-Mongiscard lies in the catchment area of the Adour River on the left bank of the Gave de Pau . The Arriou de Mondran, a tributary of the Saleys , crosses the territory of the municipality.
history
The discovery of a hatchet made of cut stone from the Copper Age shows an early settlement of the area. By conquest by Gaston IV. Of Béarn , the area came to the Béarn and the village could develop. The Viscount had a castle built opposite the Viscount of Dax to protect his newly won territories , which was destroyed centuries later during the Huguenot Wars . Today an artificial mound and traces of ditches can still be seen. The 1385 census of the Béarn counted 23 households in Salles-Mongiscard and the village was part of the Bailliage of Rivière-Gave, an archpriesthood of the diocese of Dax . In the Béarn dialect, the name of the municipality is Salas de Baura , The Gascognic word baura means "mud". The name refers to the thermal spring of Saint-Jean-de-BA , whose healing properties have been known since the 16th century. The spring is particularly popular on St. John's Eve.
Toponyms and mentions of Salles-Mongiscard were:
- Burgus apud castellum Montem Guiscardum (1106, copy book by Dax),
- Monguiscart (1246, documents from CAme),
- Sales-Monguisquart (1385, census in the Béarn),
- Salas-Monguiscart (1476, notaries from Castetner ),
- Sales and Sales-Monguiscart (around 1540 and 1578, réformation de Béarn , manuscript collection from the 16th to 18th centuries),
- Salles Mongiscar (1750, map by Cassini ),
- Salles Mongiscard (1793, Notice Communale ),
- Salles-Mongiscar (1801, Bulletin des Lois ) and
- Salles-Mongiscard (1863, Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées).
Population development
Between 1820 and 1840, the municipality reached its highest levels of around 390 inhabitants. As a result, the population decreased to around 270 by 1890 and recovered to around 300 by the beginning of the 20th century. In the following period, the size of the community stagnated with short recovery phases to around 180 until the beginning of the 1960s, followed by a robust one The growth phase began, which continues to this day.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2009 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 180 | 196 | 202 | 225 | 262 | 258 | 282 | 299 | 308 |
Attractions
- Parish church dedicated to Lawrence of Rome . A cemetery surrounds the simple church with a single nave nave , which was built in the 19th century. Behind the open, roofed anteroom rises a bell gable with three openings in its facade for the bells.
- Salles-Mongiscard Town Hall. During the Reformation there was a reformed church in Salles-Mongiscard. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by the French King Louis XIV in 1685, who ended religious tolerance towards Calvinist Protestants and from then on banned Protestant worship , the church was destroyed. Between 1860 and 1862 a new small church was built, one of the last new buildings of Reformed churches in the region. The building was subsequently restored and today houses the town hall of the municipality. It has three windows on the sides and an oculus above the entrance.
Economy and Infrastructure
Agriculture is an important economic factor in the municipality and is mainly based on cattle breeding, arable farming and viticulture.
Salles-Mongiscard is located in the AOC zones of the Béarn wine-growing region and Ossau-Iraty , a traditionally made semi-hard cheese made from sheep's milk.
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education
The community has a public primary school with 18 students in the 2017/2018 school year.
sport and freetime
A circular route with a length of 11 km and a difference in altitude of 240 m leads through the municipalities of Salles-Mongiscard, Bérenx and Salies-de-Béarn.
traffic
Salles-Mongiscard can be reached via Route départementale 29.
The Autoroute A64 , called La Pyrénéenne , crosses the municipality, but without a direct exit to the village.
Personalities
Félix Pécaut, born as Jean Pécaut on June 3, 1828 in Salies-de-Béarn, died on July 31, 1898 in Orthez, lived temporarily in Salles-Mongiscard in the Ségalas house. that he owned. He was an educationalist and inspector general of the national ministry of education. A Protestant himself, Félix Pécaut was committed to the liberalism of religion and laicism . He was also one of the earliest supporters in the struggle for the rehabilitation of Alfred Dreyfus .
Web links
- Atlas du Patrimoine Historique et Culturel with images from Salles-Mongiscard (French)
- Salles-Mongiscard on the Association of Municipalities website (French)
- Béarn des Gaves Tourist Office website (French)
- Website of the AOP Ossau-Iraty association (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salles-Mongiscard ( fr ) Gasconha.com. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ a b Regional Council of Aquitaine: Salles-Mongiscard ( fr ) visites.aquitaine.fr. Archived from the original on December 11, 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 11, 2017.
- ↑ Ma commune: Salles-Mongiscard ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ^ A b Paul Raymond: Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées ( fr ) In: Dictionnaire topographique de la France . Imprimerie nationale. S. 155, 1863. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ^ David Rumsey Historical Map Collection France 1750 ( en ) David Rumsey Map Collection: Cartography Associates. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ a b Notice Communale Salles-Mongiscard ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Populations légales 2014 Commune de Salles-Mongiscard (64500) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Eglise Saint-Laurent de Salles-Mongiscard ( fr ) visites.aquitaine.fr. Archived from the original on December 11, 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 11, 2017.
- ↑ Mairie de Salles-Mongiscard (ancien temple) ( fr ) visites.aquitaine.fr. Archived from the original on December 11, 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 11, 2017.
- ↑ Salles-Mongiscard ( fr ) Communauté de communes de Lacq-Orthez . Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité: Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Salles-Mongiscard (64500) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ^ École élémentaire ( fr ) National Ministry of Education. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ CIRCUIT 45 - Bérenx ( fr , PDF) Tourist Office des Béarn des Gaves.
