Holy-Marie-of-Kid

See also: Sainte-Marie

Holy-Marie-of-Kid is a common French, located in the department of the Landes and the area Aquitaine.

Toponymy: There exist several possible explanations in the name of the commune:

  • the termination " osse" would come from the suffix euskarien " otz (a)" who indicates a field, a place. This Basque suffix remained in Gascon (- bone () \ - òç (a)) and Aragonese (- ués) and constituted of many names of village in the surface vasconne (Tosse, Seignosse, Biaudos, Angresse, Seyresse, Tarnos, Tyrosse, Biscarosse…). See the related article Basque Toponymy.
  • It would seem that " gosse" from Kid < Garros comes < (Goi/parked) - OZ, “place in height” (In the commune, the Gayrosse district would come from the same bottom Proto-Basque).
  • the word “kid” could be a deformation of English “goose”, goose, because this bird is very present in this area of the Moors, conquered by the English during the Guerre of Hundred-Years

Geography

In edge of the Adour (12 km of banks) and with the Confluent with the Gaves joined together (Horgave) the borough is on the high part, Séqué (dry). Altitude 100m approximately (not geodetic in Tuc Lambert 109m). The low part of the barthes is broad from approximately 3 to 400 meters, and borders the Adour river in her part become very broad because of the contribution of water of Gaves Réunis whose flow is more important than that of the Fleuve.

History

Founded by the Benedictine S, old halt of the pilgrims of Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle.

Administration

Demography

Monuments

The architecture of the houses of the commune is close to the low Navarrese style (square Houses with the bleached walls, painted shutters, visible stones of angle), specific to the country of Orthe (Peyrehorade) and Seignanx (Holy Martin, Saint Andre, Tarnos…).

  • Church strengthened Holy Marie. Founded by the Benedictines (XIIe century). Of Romance Style in the beginning, it was modified with the XVIe century by adopting the Gothic Style. One discovers there a beautiful table of the nativity which would have been offered by Napoleon III. Church registered in Inv. Suppl. of the Historic buildings the 1999.

  • Castle of Aranguiche.
  • Castle of Bordus.
  • Castle of Routger.
  • Mill of Gayrosse. Old possession of the Abbey of Sorde (XVIe century).
  • Mill of Lorta.
  • Maysoun Blanque (White House). Native house of Isidore Rooms.
  • Maysoun of Rey (House of the King, on banks of Adour) where Henri IV for amorous meetings would have passed.
  • Field of Miradour. Formerly residence of Dr. Delay, former Mayor of Bayonne. (XIXe century).

Picturesque landscapes

  • Barthe S of the Adour.

  • Site of Horgave (or Nozzle of Gave) with beautiful old houses.
  • Island of Mirepeich (on Adour, served by an access to discovered only to low tide).
  • Tuc Lambert (top of the commune).
  • Tuc of Luc (Beautiful sight on the the Pyrenees).
  • Cascade of Lorta (Mill of Lorta).
  • Pond of Gayrosse (Mill of Gayrosse).

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Moors

External bonds

  • Holy-Marie-of-Kid on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Holy-Marie-of-Kid on the site of INSEE
  • Holy-Marie-of-Kid on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Holy-Marie-of-Kid on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Holy-Marie-of-Kid on Mapquest

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