Troubate

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Troubat
Trobath
Coat of arms of Troubat
Troubat (France)
Troubate
region Occitania
Department Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement Bagneres-de-Bigorre
Canton La Vallée de la Barousse
Community association Neste Barousse
Coordinates 42 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 35 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 35 ′  E
height 519–1,052 m
surface 2.79 km 2
Residents 74 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 27 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 65370
INSEE code 65453

View of the village

Troubat ( gaskognisch Trobath ) is a French commune with 74 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 are called Troubatais / Troubataises .

geography

Troubat is located around 50 kilometers southeast of the city of Tarbes in the east of the Hautes-Pyrénées department. The community consists of the village of Troubat and a few groups of houses and individual farmsteads. Large parts of the community are mountainous and forested. The Ourse runs through the municipality to the north and partially forms the municipality boundary. The highest point of the municipality is the Mail de Tépé on the western municipality border. In terms of traffic, the community is on the D22.

history

Finds of a mask of the Roman god Janus prove a settlement since early times. The place is indirectly (de Trobato ) mentioned by name for the first time in 1387 in the church register of Comminges. In the Middle Ages, the place was within the county of Barousse in the Armagnac region , which in turn was part of the Gascogne province. The parish belonged to the district La Barthe from 1793 to 1801. In addition, Troubat was from 1793 to 2015 within the canton of Mauléon-Barousse . The municipality has been part of the Bagnères-de-Bigorre arrondissement since 1801.

Population development

year 1793 1800 1806 1846 1901 1911 1921 1936 1946 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2014
Residents 347 366 333 438 200 197 143 146 94 78 77 51 41 35 53 53 68
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Pierre village church
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • Village well from 1813
  • private tomb next to the cemetery
  • Dovecote
  • typical old houses in the village
  • former village school
  • two lavoirs (wash houses)
  • Cliff , climbing wall for mountaineers
  • Troubat Caves (Grotte Sainte-Araille)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen