Ossenx is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.
Geography
Hydrography
The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the
Gave d' Oloron, affluent of the
Gave of Pau, and by its tributaries, the brooks of Labaigt and Lasarouquettes.
Localities and hamlets
Communes bordering
Toponymy
The toponym
Ossenx appears in the forms
Osentz (XIIIe century,
Fors de Béarn),
Ossenxs (1385, censier of Béarn),
Lo borguet of Ossencx (1400, notaries of
Navarrenx) and
Osenxs (1546, reformation of Béarn).
History
Paul Raymond note that in 1385, Ossenx counted 9 fires and depended on the Bailliage of
Navarrenx.
Administration
Intercommunality
The common one belongs to five inter-commune structures:
- the Community of communes of Sauveterre-to-Béarn
- trade union of the schools of Gaveausset
- intercommunity association of Gaves and Saleys
- trade union AEP of Navarrenx
- departmental trade union of electrification.
Demography
2005: provisional population of INSEE.
Economy
The activity is mainly agricultural.
Culture and inheritance
Civil inheritance
Religious heritage
Environmental inheritance
Equipment
Personalities related to the commune