Sallespisse

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

Its inhabitants is called Sallespissiens and Sallespissiennes.

Geography

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by an affluent of the Gave of Pau, the brook of Rontrun, and by a tributary of the Luy de Béarn, the brook of the Room No.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Bonnegarde (Moors) in north
Bonnut in the North-West
Sault-with-Navailles in the east
Orthez in the west
Balansun in the south.

Toponymy

The toponym Sallespisse appears in the forms Salespisso (1304, titles of Béarn), Salespisses (1307, cartulaire of Orthez), Dirty-Pissos (1346, titles of Béarn), Salespissoo (1385, censier of Béarn), Salted-Pisso (1476, notaries of Castetner), Salespis (1583, titles of Garos), Dirty and Rontum and Room-Piss (respectively 1546 and 1675, reformation of Béarn).

Sallespisse has like origin the Germanic word saal “castle” with a name of Latin man Piccius.

History

Paul Raymond note that in 1385 the commune depended on the Bailliage of Pau and counted 27 fires.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to three inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of the canton of Orthez
trade union water and cleansing of the Three Cantons
departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

Economy

The activity is turned primarily towards agriculture (breeding, mixed-farming, vine growing).

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

The commune is a stage on the Via Lemovicensis (or way of Vézelay ), Latin name of one of the four ways of France of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle.

Parish church Saint-Jean-Baptist

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school.

Personalities related to the commune

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