Arrast-Larrebieu

Arrast-Larrebieu
Arrast-Larrebieu
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Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton	Mauléon-Licharre
Intercommunality	Soule-Xiberoa
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Allande Davant
Area1	7.56 km2 (2.92 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	102
• Density	13/km2 (35/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	64050 / 64130
Elevation	132–299 m (433–981 ft); (avg. 173 m or 568 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Arrast-Larrebieu (Basque: Ürrustoi-Larrebille) is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Aquitaine region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Urrustoitars.^[1]

1 Geography
- 1.1 Places and Hamlets^[3]
- 1.2 Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]
2 Toponymy
3 History
4 Administration
- 4.1 Inter-communality
5 Demography
6 Economy
7 Culture and Heritage
- 7.1 Civil heritage
- 7.2 Religious heritage
8 Notable people linked to the commune
9 See also
- 9.1 External links
10 Notes and references
- 10.1 Notes
- 10.2 References

Geography

Arrast-Larrebieu General View

Arrast-Larrebieu is located in the former province of Soule some 12 km east by south-east of Saint-Palais and 10 km north by north-east of Mauléon-Licharre. Access to the commune is by the D243 road which branches off the D11 west of the commune and north of Espès-Undurein and passes through the village before continuing north-east to join the D115. The D135 from the D11 in the west to Moncayolle-Larrory-Mendibieu in the south-east passes through the south of the commune and the hamlet of Larrebieu. The commune is mainly farmland with many forests scattered throughout the commune.^[2]

The Laxubie rises in the south of the commune and flows north past the village gathering many tributaries and joins the Apaure north of the commune. Several small streams rise in the west of the commune and flow west to join the Saison.^[2]

Places and Hamlets^[3]

Abbadia
Aguelcheberry
Aguerria
Aitzaguer (ruins)
Algalarrondo
Arkabisquey
Arrast
Asconeguy
Behety
Bethulard
Bou
Garatia
Gastelu
Gastelu Arrast
Gasteluchague
Habiague
Heguilus
Hoilly
Ibarbouen
Lacoste
Laplume
Larçabal
Larlette
Larrebieu
Larribet
Mendiondo
Oyhenart
Poutou
Sabalain
Sagardoyburu
Sallaberry
Sunhary
Tine

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Toponymy

Arrast Fronton

The commune name in basque today is Ürrüstoi-Larrabile.^[4]

Jean-Baptiste Orpustan indicated that the spelling in Basque Arrast is sometimes given with the determinant Ürrüxtoia meaning "hazel tree grove". He also stated that larrabil means a "rounded moor, squat".^[5]

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Arrast	Arrast	13th century	Raymond	11	Bayonne	Village
	Arrast	1690	Orpustan
	Larast	1690	Orpustan
	Larrast	1690	Orpustan

Larrebieu	Larrebiu	1384	Raymond	94	Notaries	Village
	Larrebiu	1690	Orpustan

Sources:

Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (French)^[6]
Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy^[5]

Origins:

Bayonne: Cartulary of Bayonne or Livre d'Or (Book of Gold)^[7]
Notaries: Notaries of Navarrenx^[8]

History

Paul Raymond noted on page 11 of his 1863 dictionary that the commune had a Lay Abbey, vassal of the Viscounts of Soule.^[6]

Larrebieu was merged with the commune of Arrast on 16 October 1842.^[6]

Administration

Arrast-Larrebieu Community Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[9]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2014	Julien Erbin	UMP
2014	2020	Allande Davant

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

The commune is part of seven inter-communal structures:

the Community of communes of Soule-Xiberoa;
the Sanitation association of Pays de Soule;
the AEP association of Pays de Soule;
the inter-communal association of la Vallée;
the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
the inter-communal association for the construction and operation of the CES at Mauleon;
the association to support Basque culture.

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 102 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
216	212	154	191	176	200	323	308	292

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
261	247	283	235	265	275	259	252	246

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
263	251	258	242	225	215	201	203	198

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
173	144	128	131	123	105	103	102	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Population of Arrast-Larrebieu

Economy

Economic activity is mainly agricultural (livestock and pasture). The town is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée zone designation of Ossau-iraty.

Culture and Heritage

Civil heritage

An enclosure with an earthen parapet (a protohistoric fort or Gaztelu zahar) at an altitude of 282 metres at a place called Gazteluxaga reflects the ancient past of the commune.

Religious heritage

The church of Sainte-Lucie

Hilarri in the Churchyard

Chapel at Larrebieu

The Parish Church of Sainte-Lucie (19th century) is registered as an historical monument.^[10] It has a bell tower called Trinity or Souletin meaning the "top of the wall", pierced by bays for the bells with three roof peaks of approximately equal height, hence the name Trinity.^[11] The church contains a Processional Cross (17th century) which is registered as an historical object.^[12]

Notable people linked to the commune

Abbadie d'Arrast Family, initially lay abbots whose descendants originated the construction of various chateaux (the Château d'Abbadie at Hendaye, Elorriaga at Ciboure).
Jean-Louis Davant, born in 1935 in Arrast-Larrebieu, is a writer, poet, bertsolari, pastoralari, and academician.

Notes and references

Notes

↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

↑ Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Google Maps
↑ Géoportail, IGN (French)
↑ Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque language (Basque)
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, ISBN 2 86781 396 4 (French)
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (French)
↑ Manuscript from the 14th century in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
↑ Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
↑ List of Mayors of France (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000734 Parish Church of Sainte-Lucie (French)
↑ Philippe Veyrin, The Basques, p. 241, Arthaud, 20 December 1975, ISBN 2700300386 (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64000036 Processional Cross (French)

[10] At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

[1] Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)

[Google-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Google Maps

[G.C3.A9o-3] Géoportail, IGN (French)

[4] Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque language (Basque)

[Orpustan-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, ISBN 2 86781 396 4 (French)

[Raymond-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (French)

[Cartulary-7] Manuscript from the 14th century in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)

[Notaires_de_Navarrenx-8] Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)

[9] List of Mayors of France (French)

[11] Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000734 Parish Church of Sainte-Lucie (French)

[12] Philippe Veyrin, The Basques, p. 241, Arthaud, 20 December 1975, ISBN 2700300386 (French)

[13] Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64000036 Processional Cross (French)

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