Sarrance

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

It does not seem to have gentilé there for Sarrance but, as inhabitants of the Valley of Winder, they are called Aspois . The inhabitants are called Sarrançais and Sarrançaises

Geography

The common one belongs to the Vallée of Winder.

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the Gave d' Aspe and its affluents:
  • the brook Aulouret
  • the brook Aygue Bère and its affluents:
    • the brook of Coucourou and its affluent:
      • the brook of Coume
    • the brook of the Dregs
    • the arrèc of Méninère
    • the brook of Saillen
  • the brook of Bosdapous
  • the brook of Espalungue
  • the arrèc of Coueyla
  • the brook Gassat
  • the brook of Isson
  • the arrèc of Poursiouque

The commune is also sprinkled by an affluent of the Gave de Lourdios (affluent of the gave of Winder):

  • the brook Arric

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Sarrance appears in the forms Sarrancia ( Oratorium Beatæ de Sarrancia , 1345, titles of Béarn), Sarransce and Nostre-Gives of Sarranse (1396 and 1450, notaries of Lucq-with-Béarn).

It comes from medieval Latin serrare (to close) and means closing, contracting.

History

The commune of Sarrance became independent of that of Bedous on May 22nd, 1778.
Paul Raymond note the existence of a laic, vassal abbey of the Viscount of Béarn.
Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) wrote her Heptaméron (unfinished collection of tales] in Sarrance.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to five inter-commune structures:
  • the Community of communes of the Valley of Winder
  • trade union of television of Oloron - Valley of Winder
  • mixed trade-union of Haut-Béarn
  • intercommunity association of material aid to schooling in Valley of Winder
  • departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

The figure for 2005 is that of the provisional population established by INSEE.

Economy

The economy of the commune is primarily directed towards agriculture and the breeding (bovines and sheep).
The purity of the Gave S allowed the development of the Pisciculture.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

  • Houses of XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries (cattle shed, baker's oven).
  • House of Master of the XVIIIe century.
  • Fountain and laundrette of the XIXe century.
  • Station on the Line Pau-Canfranc, closed with the traffic since 1970.

Religious heritage

  • Priory of canons of Prémontré, XIe and XIIe centuries, renovated with XVIIe and XIXe century.
  • contiguous Cloister with the church, XVIIe century.
  • Notre-Dame Vault of Pierre, end XVIIIe century.
  • Stage of the Via Tolosane, Latin name of one of the four ways of France of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle.

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school. closed

Personalities related to the commune

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