Louhossoa

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

Its name Basque is Luhuso .

The name of inhabitant is Luhusoar.

Geography

Situation

Louhossoa is a commune of the Basque province of the Labourd, near to the Spanish border (10 km) and at half an hour by the road to the Basque Côte. It is with the junction of several small valleys making communicate Labourd and Low-Navarre.

Access

The commune is served by the secondary road D918 between Itxassou and Bidarray.

Hydrography

The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Nive, affluent of the Adour, and by a tributary of this one, the brook Crushes it.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Cambo-the-Baths in north
Itxassou in the west
Bidarray in the south
Macaye in the east.

Toponymy

The toponym Louhossoa appears in the forms Larhossa , Lorussona , Lurrossoa , Larrossoa and Lurossoa (1625, titles of Louhossoa), Beata Maria de Lahaussoa and Louhossoüa (respectively 1683 and 1690, collations of the diocese of Bayonne) and Mountain-on-Nive in 1793.

History

Formerly district of Macaye and Mendionde, Louhossoa became a commune independent towards the end of the XVIIe century. The village started to become populated towards the end of the E century. It increases in 1834 with the discovery of a layer of Feldspath and kaolin. The career and the factory are closed today.

The law of March 4th, 1790, which determined a new administrative landscape of France by creating departments and districts, decided birth of the department of the the Low-Pyrenees by joining together the Béarn, the Gascon grounds of Bayonne and Bidache, and the three French Basque provinces. For these last, three districts were created: Mauléon, Saint-Palate and Ustaritz, which replaced the baillage Labourd. By abuse of power of the local leaders, the head office of Ustaritz was transferred almost immediately to Bayonne. Its Directory encouraged a great number of municipalities to adopt new names in conformity with the spirit of the Revolution. Thus Louhossoa was called Mountain-on-Nive, Ainhoa became Mendiarte, Ustaritz Marat-on-Nive, Itxassou Union, Arbonne Constante, Saint-Etienne-with-Baïgorry Thermopyles, Saint-Palate Mount-Bidouze, Saint-Jean-Foot-of-Port Nive-Frank, Saint-Jean-with-Luz Chauvinistic-Dragon, of the name of a young dead soldier to the combat and Souraïde Mendialde.

Administration

Intercommunality

Louhossoa belongs to eight inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes Errobi
SIVOM Artzamendi
Mixed trade-union of the contract of river of Nives
Nive Intercommunity association - Bubble
Trade union for the support for the Basque culture
Trade union AEP Macaye - Louhossoa
autonomous Intercommunity association of cleansing Ur Garbitze
departmental Trade union of electrification.

Demography

Economy

Feldspar and Kaolin careers, discovered in 1834, were exploited until the XXe century.
The activity is now mainly agricultural.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

The church Our-Lady-with-the Assomption ( Beata Maria out of Basque) date of the XVIIe century, with a massive and not bleached tower. It has a bell of 1726 inventoried by the ministry for the Culture.

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

; teaching The commune has an elementary school.

Personalities related to the commune

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