Castetbon
Castetbon is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.
Geography
Hydrography
The commune is crossed by affluents of the Gave d' Oloron, the Saleys and its tributary Arriougrand, the brook of Labaigt and its affluents the arriou of Commeigts and the Gouarin brook.
Localities and hamlets
Communes bordering
- Ozenx-Montestrucq in north
- Loubieng in the east
- Narp and Orriule in the west
- Ossenx in south-west
- Audaux in the south.
Toponymy
The toponym Castetbon appears in the forms Castelbon (1227, registers of Bordeaux), Feels-Bladii Castegbo (1384, notaries of Navarrenx), Casteg-Boo (1385, censier of Béarn), Castegbon (1546, reformation of Béarn) and Feel-Marie de Casteigbon (1612, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).
History
The site seems to be strengthened by the Vascons-Romans who name it Castrum Bonom. Placed on a hillock offering a broad panorama, quickly equipped with an enclosure, the place sees its population increasing at the 12th century so much so that the lord Arnaud Guilhem of Audaux claimed in 1276 with the bishop of Oloron the construction of a church - it will be dedicated to Saint Blaise - and of an contiguous cemetery. The small borough takes then the name of Castetbon-la-neuve.In 1385, Castetbon counted 82 fires and depended on the Bailliage of Navarrenx.
Its main activities, until the 20th century are organized mainly around the superimposed mills which crush the grain as well as clay and around activities of weaving.
Administration
Intercommunality
The common one belongs to six inter-commune structures:- the Community of communes of Sauveterre-to-Béarn
- trade union of the schools of Gaveausset
- forest mixed trade-union of the oak groves of the Basque valleys and inhabitants of Béarn
- intercommunity association of Gaves and Saleys
- trade union AEP of Navarrenx
- departmental trade union of electrification.
Demography
2005: provisional population of INSEE.
Economy
The activity is mainly agricultural.
Culture and inheritance
An old saying would say “has Castèthbon, early that good I.E.(internal excitation). With share los còps of baston! ”.The festival of the village is about on August 21st.
Civil inheritance
The borough was formerly surrounded by a wall of which there does not remain today that a door, said Western (or sometimes salt carries), the stones of the aforesaid the wall having been used by the inhabitants for the construction or the repair of the residences and this, as of the French revolution.
Religious heritage
The church of the hamlet, initially dedicated to Saint-Blaise, was destroyed by a fire in 1569, which also carried a trunk containing all the document concerning at the community. The church was rebuilt and took then the name of Our-lady of the Assumption. Its stained glasses - representative Saint-Dominique, Saint-Anthony, Saint-Joseph, the Virgin Mary and the Christ - go back to 1898. A more recent stained glass (1942) puts in scene two doves around a cut.