Abidos, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Abidos is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.

Abidos
Commune
A street in Abidos
Coat of arms
Location of Abidos
Abidos
Abidos
Coordinates: 43°23′59″N 0°37′23″W
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementPau
CantonLe Cœur de Béarn
IntercommunalityLacq-Orthez
Government
 • Mayor (2020-2026) Jean-Claude Mirassou
Area
1
3.06 km2 (1.18 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
226
 • Density74/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64003 /64150
Elevation86–170 m (282–558 ft)
(avg. 95 m or 312 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Abidos is a Béarnais commune located some 13 km south-east of Orthez and 4 km north of Mourenx on the south side of the Gave de Pau. Access to the commune is by the D31 road from Le Bourguet in the north turning west in the commune to access the village and continuing southwest to join the D9. The D33 road from Noguères in the southeast passes through the commune east of the village and joins the D31 as it turns west. The commune has an industrial area in the southwest with the rest of the commune mainly farmland.[2]

The Gave de Pau forms the north-eastern border of the commune and also passes through the northern corner of the commune as it flows north-west to join the Gave d'Oloron at Peyrehorade. The Baïse river flows through the centre of the commune from the southeast and joins the Gave de Pau in the commune. The Luzoué also flows from the southeast through the west of the commune to join the Gave de Pau.[2]

Places and hamlets
  • Bastia
  • Bernacheyre
  • Chalosse
  • Joanlong
  • Pleasure
  • Us

[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

[2]

Toponymy

The name Abidos appears in the forms:

Michel Grosclaude offers a Latin etymology of Avitus plus the Aquitaine suffix -ossum "domain of Avitus".

Its name in Béarnais is Avidos (according to the classical norm).

History

Paul Raymond[4] notes that in 1385, Abidos had 18 fires and depended on the bailiwicks of Lagor and Pardies. Abidos had a castle with an attached door across the Pau river.

Heraldry
Arms of Abidos
 Blazon:

Azure, the crested osprey in argent beaked and membered in gules, perched on a bone of death also argent posed in fess.

Administration
Abidos Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors of Abidos

FromToNamePartyPosition
19682008Léon Guilhamélou-SempéUMP
2008CurrentJean-Claude Mirassou

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

Abidos is a member of seven inter-communal organisations:[12]

  • the community of communes of Lacq
  • SIVU for the development and management of the river basin of Baïses
  • AEP union for water and Baise;
  • sanitation union of the communes of the Juscle and Baise valleys
  • Energy Union of Pyrenees-Atlantiques
  • Intercommunal Union for defence against floods of the Gave de Pau
  • Intercommunal Union for educational regrouping in the communes of Os-Marsillon and Abidos.

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 225—    
1800 230+0.31%
1806 203−2.06%
1821 241+1.15%
1831 238−0.13%
1836 229−0.77%
1841 207−2.00%
1846 222+1.41%
1851 222+0.00%
1856 237+1.32%
1861 216−1.84%
1866 227+1.00%
1872 208−1.45%
1876 229+2.43%
1881 204−2.29%
1886 212+0.77%
1891 182−3.01%
1896 186+0.44%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 184−0.22%
1906 190+0.64%
1911 183−0.75%
1921 170−0.73%
1926 162−0.96%
1931 149−1.66%
1936 149+0.00%
1946 109−3.08%
1954 147+3.81%
1962 255+7.13%
1968 226−1.99%
1975 184−2.89%
1982 187+0.23%
1990 188+0.07%
1999 200+0.69%
2007 230+1.76%
2012 233+0.26%
2017 226−0.61%
Source: EHESS[13] and INSEE[14]

Politics

Presidential Elections Second Round:[15]

ElectionWinning CandidateParty%
2017 Emmanuel Macron EM 67.94
2012 François Hollande PS 66.89
2007 Ségolène Royal PS 58.44
2002 Jacques Chirac RPR 90.70

Economy

The town is part of the zone designation of Ossau-Iraty cheese.

Culture and heritage
Abidos Church
Front of the Church

Religious Heritage

There is an old chapel at Abidos castle.

Environmental heritage

An arboretum created by the community of communes of Lacq and the Abengoa BioEnergy France company, is located behind the village hall.

Also found in Abydos, a mill with its canal. The path of Naöu means an unencumbered way along the Pau river (phonetic transcription of nau is bateau in Béarnais).

Facilities

Education

The commune has a school with two classrooms for primary school, a school canteen, and a library.

Sports and sports equipment

The town has a sports field in the centre with a football field, basketball court, volleyball court, and tennis courts. There is also a sports hall equipped for basketball, tennis and Basque pelota. Lastly there is a roller skate park for BMX edge of the Baise.

Notable People linked to the commune
  • Raoul Vergez was born in Abidos on 3 August 1908 and died in Senlis (Oise) on 7 July 1977. He was a "companion carpenter",[Note 1] writer and journalist. Known by the name of "Béarnais, the friend of the Tour de France", he left an important mark on the work of the Companions in France. He reported from the United States during a trip in 1952, some special techniques for companion carpenters.

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. See "Compagnonnage" in the French Wikipedia

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Google Maps
  3. Géoportail, IGN, (in French)
  4. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011, p. 2 (in French)
  5. Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn (in French)
  6. Michel Grosclaude, Topnymical Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Ed. Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, ISBN 2-35068-005-3, p. 120-121
  7. Cartulary of the Abbey of Lucq, Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn (in French)
  8. Manuscript of the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  9. Notaries of Pardies - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  10. Manuscript of the 16th to the 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  11. Cassini Map 1750 - Abidos
  12. Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Cellule informatique préfecture 64 Archived May 5, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, consulted on 9 November 2011
  13. Données Cassini, EHESS
  14. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  15. http://www.lemonde.fr/data/france/presidentielle-2017/
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