Lucq-of-Béarn

Geography

Commune of the Yrénées-Atlantiques, Lucq-of-Béarn is in the center of the triangle Oloron-Holy-Marie - Monein - Navarrenx, to approximately 35 km in the south-west of Pau. Lucq-of-Béarn fact part of the most extended communes of France with a distance of more than 15 km between each one of its most distant ends. The landscape is undulating with a culminating point with 333m of altitude.

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by affluents of the Gave of Pau, the brooks the Laà (and by its tributary, the brook Bounchoun) and the Géu and by affluents of the Gave d' Oloron, the brooks the Auronce, the Laüs and the Layoû.

Localities and hamlets

Cape de Layoû, where is born the Layoû
limiting Marquemale “dangerous”
Parlayoû “surroundings from Layoû”, small valley in the south of Cape de Layoû
Saint-Michel
Lucq Bieilh
Labaigt
Marquessouquere
Bernateix
Auronce
Bordes
Affite

Communes bordering

Lagor, Vielleségure and Lahourcade in north
Ogenne-Camptort in the North-West
Monein in the east
Lay-Lamidou, Préchacq-Navarrenx and Saucède in the west
Cardesse in south-east
Ledeuix and Verdets in the south

Toponymy

The toponym Lucq , of Latin lucus “wood crowned”, appears in the forms Villa of Luco, villa quœ vocatur Luc and Sanctus-Vincentius de Sylva-Bona (respectively Xe and XIe centuries, cartulaire of the abbey of Lucq), Lucus (1323, censier of Béarn), Feels-Bisentz Luc and lo mostier of Feels-Vinssentz Luc (respectively 1365 and 1426, notaries of Lucq-of-Béarn).

It comes from Latin lucum: wood, forest.

History

Paul Raymond note which the commune counted an abbey of Bénédictin S founded with Xe century by Guillaume Sanche.
In 1385 Lucq depended on the Bailliage of Navarrenx and counted 241 fires.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to three inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of Monein
trade union AEP gave and lowers
trade union intercantonal for the installation and the development of the Country of the falls

Demography

2006: provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

the common one belongs to the zone AOC Vignoble of Jurançon.
the principal activity of the area is the agro-alimentary one and the breeding.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

The commune is located on an alternative way of the Chemin of Pyrenean Piedmont (or el cami deu EP of the coste ), secondary route of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle.
The old abbey dates from XIIe century and was classified with the historic buildings in 1990.
The church Saint-Vincent-Deacon is also very old (XIe century) and was altered several times until the XIXe century.

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school.

Personalities related to the commune

Louis Favoreu, born on September 5th, 1936 with Lucq-at-Béarn, deceased on September 1st, 2004 with Aix-en-Provence (Rhone delta) was professor of constitutional Law.
Pierre Lauga was born on January 17th, 1922 with Lucq-at-Béarn and deceased on July 7th, 1984 with Vichy. It is a former French player of Rugby to XV, which played with the team of France and the Section paloise.

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