Mendionde

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

Located in the province of the Labourd, Mendionde (< Mendiondo) belonged to the Basque Country.

Its Basque name is that of the principal district Lekorne . Mendi ondo means “beside the mountain”. Lekorne , of old a Lekorian , is the name of the district of the church.

The name of inhabitant is Lekondar .

Geography

Situation

Access

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the Joyeuse, affluent of the Adour and by the brook Crushes it, tributary of the Nive.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Districts

  • Atissane < Atezain
  • Basseboure < " Basoita"
  • Gréciette < Gerezieta < Garazieta
  • Lekorne

Toponymy

The toponym Mendionde appears in the forms Mendiondo (XIIIe century, collection Duchesne volume CXIV) and Sanctus-Cyprianus de Mendionde (1766, collations of the diocese of Bayonne).

The toponym Atissane appears in the form Attissane (1863, topographic dictionary Basque Béarn-Country).

The toponym Gréciette appears in the forms Garro (1186, cartulaire of Bayonne), Saint Martin's day de Garro (1518, chapter of Bayonne) and Guerreciette (1755, collations of the diocese of Bayonne notes that the barons de Garro belonged to the nobility of Labourd.

Administration

Intercommunality

Mendionde belongs to eight inter-commune structures:
  • the Community of communes of the Country of Hasparren Hazparneko Lurraldea
  • SIVU Bai Gurea
    • teaching
  • SIVU of regrouping of Mendionde - Macaye Gure Eskola
  • Adour-Ursuia Trade union of noncollective cleansing
  • Trade union AEP Mendionde - Bonloc
  • departmental Trade union of electrification
  • Intercommunity association for the artisanal zone of Ayherre
  • Trade union for the support for the Basque culture

Demography

Economy

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

  • the Gaztelu zahar (name given in the Basque Country to the Fortified towns Protohistorique S) of Zihorri, between Mendionde and Hélette, is located on a height at 267 Mr.
  • the Château of Garro
is registered with the historic buildings since 1925. It conceals retables, statues, tables and skirtings of coating inventoried by the ministry for the Culture.
  • Steles discoïdales of the cemetery of the district Lekorne
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