Accous

Accous is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

The common one belongs to the Vallée of Winder.

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the following affluents of the Gave d' Oloron:

the arrèc of Besse
the Gave d' Aspe and its affluents:

the Gave de Lescun and its affluent:

the brook Labadie

Berthe and its affluent:

the torrent of Araille

affluents of the Gave d' Aydius, affluent of the gave of Winder:

the gave of Bouren
the brook of Sahun

Localities and hamlets

Jouers
Lhers

Communes bordering

Bedous and Aydius in north
Lées-Athas and Lescun in the west
This-Eygun and Borce in the south
Laruns in the east.

Toponymy

Old Aspa Luca , the toponym Accous /ak ' u' S appears in the forms Acos (1247), Aquos d' Aspe (1376), Abadie de Cos (1538), Sanctus Martinus de Acous (1608).

The toponym Jouers /ju ' E rs/is old a Joertz (1345), probably a Métathèse of a Basque derived Oïhartz d' oihan “forest”. Other C-Ws communication Joers (since 1385) then Jouers (since 1712).

The toponym Appatie' (cf Basque Aphatea ) announces a stronghold of Abbées laic ( Abadie in Gascon standard). It is noted that in Vallée of Winder the deaf Latin are preserved.

History

Paul Raymond note which the commune counted a laic abbey, vassal of the Viscount of Béarn.
In, one counted 74 fires there. Accous was the chief town of the valley of Winder.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to six inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of the Valley of Winder;
Trade union of television of Oloron - Valley of Winder;
Mixed trade-union of Haut-Béarn;
Intercommunity association of material aid to schooling in Valley of Winder;
Intercommunity association of the Bridge of Lescun;
departmental Trade union of electrification.

Demography

Economy

The economy of the commune is primarily directed towards agriculture and the breeding. The manufacture of farm cheeses is also one of the resources of the commune.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Houses and farms of 15th, 16th, 18th, 18th and 19th centuries, cattle sheds and baker's ovens.
strong Houses of 13th and 14th centuries.
Station of Accous on the Line Pau-Canfranc, closed with the traffic since 1970.
Écomusée of the valley of Winder, located in an old cheese dairy. The techniques of manufacture of cheese of mountain and the culinary traditions local are development there.

Religious heritage

Saint Martin's day Church, 17th century, altered 18th century, restored 19th century.
Romance Vault Saint-Saturnin de Jouers (12th century).
Saint-Christau Vault of Aulet, remade at the 17th century near which three miraculous fountains were. Only remains principal the, known as one of the east, consisted of a medieval basin out of stone and cover. To bathe there allowed to move away the evil spells and to cure fevers, sciatic nerves and epilepsy. It was renovated.
Vault Saint-Christophe, end 18th century, altered fine 19th century, restored at the 20th century.
Vault Saint-Jean-Baptist, beginning 18th century, altered at the 19th century.
Abbey about the Prémontrés.
Accous is a stage on the Via Tolosane, name Latin of one of the four ways of France of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle.

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school, the school of the borough .

Personalities related to the commune

Cyprien Despourrins, born and died in Accous (1698 - 1759), is a poet Béarnais of language Occitan E and the author of famous and emblematic songs of Béarn.
Bernard Lacoarret, (beginning 18th century), originating in Accous and lawyer at the Parliament in Navarre (see Cardesse)
Henri Lillaz, general adviser of Accous of 1919 to 1937.

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