Briscous

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

Its Basque name Beskoitze , comes from old a *Beraskoitz (a) ( Berascois in 1368) “field of Berasko”.

The name of inhabitant is beskoiztar .

Geography

The village is located at about fifteen kilometers of Bayonne.

Hydrography

The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Ardanavy, and its affluent, Ur Handia and by a tributary of the Joyeuse, the Marmareko Erreka and its affluent, the brook Hasquette.

Localities and hamlets

Two principal districts: the " bourg" (Barnea) and " salines" (Urgazieta), as well as other localities such as " plaza" controlled; , " the enseigne" , " district of the bois" , " Larréa" , " Eyhéraldéa" , " Olhatzia" , " Garatia" , " Mendia" , " Ibarburia" or " Uzpurua".

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Briscous appears in the forms Bruscos and Briscos (1348, Gascon Roles) and Hiriberry (Villeneuve in Basque, 1794)

History

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one takes part in nine inter-commune structures:

  • the Community of communes of the Country of Hasparren “Hazparneko lurraldea”

  • Intercommunity association of protection of the banks of maritime Adour and of its affluents
  • Intercommunity association for the management of the center Txakurrak
  • Trade union for the support for the Basque culture
  • Mixed trade-union of drinking water supply URA
  • Mixed trade-union of cleansing URA
  • autonomous Trade union of cleansing of Adour
  • Trade union AEP of Arberoue
  • departmental Trade union of electrification.

Demography

Economy

The activity is mainly turned towards the agriculture.
Briscous a long time produced rock salt and soda, and its salt water fed until 1953 the saline thermal baths of Biarritz. Underground drains of more than twenty kilometers conveyed a water with content saltworks more than ten times higher than that of sea water.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

  • old farms of XVIIe, XVIIIe and XIXe centuries were listed by the ministry for the Culture.
  • Laundrette (borough)
  • Saltworks (Saltworks)
have:
    • a whole of three canopies representing the Immaculate Conception, holy Joseph and the Jesus Child;
    • a monumental painting of the painters Decrept Etienne, Louis and Martin;
    • a furniture many.

, vicar of Briscous from where it was originating, refractory priest with the injunctions of the new mode, was carried out in 1793.

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