Castet

Geography

Castet is located in Vallée of Ossau on bank is of a Lac of stopping established on the Gave d' Ossau.

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the Gave d' Ossau and its affluent, the brook the Lau, like by an affluent of this last, the Lartigau brook.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Louvie-Juzon in north and the east
Louvie-Soubiron in the south.

Toponymy

The toponym Castet appears under its current form since 1096 and in the forms Castellum (1154, titles of Barcelona), Casteg (1385, censier of Béarn), Sent Policarpe de Casteig (1621, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).
Castet holds its name of the castle of Castet-Gélos, set up on the territory of the commune.

History

Paul Raymond note which the commune counted a laic abbey, vassal of the Viscount of Béarn.
In 1385, Castet counted 45 fires and depended on the Bailliage of Ossau.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to four inter-commune structures:

SIVOM of the valley of Ossau
trade union of the perception of Arudy
trade union of electrification of Bas-Ossau
mixed trade-union of the Lake Castet.

The common one belongs to the Pays of Oloron and Haut-Béarn.

Demography

Economy

The economy of the commune is primarily directed towards agriculture and the breeding.
Built on the Gave d' Ossau a stopping feeds a Hydroelectric station basic fall (4 m), of a power of 1800 kw, property of the hydroelectric Société of the South (SHEM) and going back to 1957.
The purity of water of the gave of Ossau allowed the development of pisciculture.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Castle of Castet-Gélos, known as turn Abadie , of XIIe and XIIIe centuries, having belonged to the Viscounts of Oloron.

Religious heritage

the Saint-Polycarpe church dominates the village top of the one of the two rock headlands given up by the glacier in the middle of the valley. It dates from XIe century, was altered in XVe and XVIe centuries, and was completed about 1861 (heightening of the bell-tower). The stained glasses date from the end of the XIXe siècle.

the church profited from an important campaign from restoration in 2001 with the recovery from the frescos and mural decorations. To note, its remarkable and monumental pillar-stoup out of gray marble of Arudy.

Church Holy-Catherine dating from the medium of the the Middle Ages, altered in XVe century and restored at the XIXe century.

Environmental inheritance

The Lac of Castet replaced marsh during the construction of the stopping. It is populated of trouts fario, of minnow S, Anguille S and of Gardon S. a space museographic is devoted to him by the commune of Laruns.

The Natural reserve of nesting of the fawn-coloured vultures is located on the territory of the communes of Aste-Béon, Bielle, Bilhères and Castet. The museum which is associated for him, called the cliff with the vultures , is at the entry of the village of Aste-Béon.

Equipment

Personalities related to the commune

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