Lacommande

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

Its inhabitants is called them.

Geography

Hydrography

The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Bayse, which are thrown in the Gave of Pau, and by its affluents, the brooks of Coigt d' Arrens and Bernatouse like by the affluent of this last, the brook of Brouqua.

Localities and hamlets

Allotment of Marlat on the road of Monein

Communes bordering

Monein in north, the west and the south.
Aubertin in the east.

Toponymy

The toponym Lacommande appears in the forms Hospitale de Faget and Domus Albertini (1128, titles of Aubertin), Espitau d' Aubertii (1344, notaries of Pardies), Commanderie d' Aubertin (1768, enumeration of Aubertin).
It comes from the commandery from Hospital of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem created in Aubertin in 1128.

History

In 1128, a commandery of Saint-Jean-of-Jerusalem was founded on the commune of Aubertin. It depended initially on the abbey of Holy-Christine in Spain, then in XIVe century became the property of the Barnabite S of Lescar.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to six inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of Monein
SIVOM of the canton of Lasseube
SIVU for the installation and the management of the rivers of the basin of the Falls
Trade union of the slopes of Lasseube - Jurançon
Trade union intercantonal for the installation and the development of the Country of the Falls
Trade union AEP Gave and Baïse.

Demography

The population of 2005 is a provisional population established by INSEE.

Economy

The common one belongs to the zone AOC Vignoble of Jurançon. Its economy primarily agricultural, is turned, in addition to the vine, towards the mixed-farming and the breeding of bovines.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

The commune is a flowered city having obtained two flowers with the Concours of the cities and flowered villages with the prize list 2006.

Religious heritage

the church Saint-Blaise, to Romance style, goes back from XIIe century and reflects hispano-Arabic influences. The apse is very richly decorated capitals representing Kings Mages and of the baskets furnished with animals (doves, owls, camels, monkeys and quadrupeds with head of man. The church was a stage on the Via Tolosane, name Latin of one of the four ways of France of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle. The cemetery has tombs discoïdales.
Commanderie founded in 1118, classified with the historic buildings in 1962.

Equipment

Personalities related to the commune

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