This-Eygun

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

Its inhabitants is called them.

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 of Boudoub
  • the Escuarpe brook and its affluent:
    • the brook of Cape det Mailh
  • the brook of Lacing
  • the brook of Sadum

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym This appears in the forms Sete (1250), Ceta (1449)), Feel-Pée-of-This (1620), Sette (1675).

Eygun , for its part, is mentioned in the form Igun (1449)). Eygun probably comes from a Basque Ihigun which means rush bed , of ihi “snap rings” and gun , suffix rental.

The form This-Eygun remained stable since the meeting of the village of Eygun to the commune of This.

Hydronymes

  • Escuarpe.

  • Souhet (Basque Zuhieta “with the bridge”).
  • the brook of Boudoub.

Oronymes

  • peak will dera Pou (1 672 m)

  • Antchet (1 980 m).
  • Coucouroû (1 482 m).

History

In 1385, This counted 45 fires and depended on the Bailliage of Oloron.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to five inter-commune structures:
  • the Community of communes of the Valley of Winder
  • trade union for the development of the television of the High 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

Economy

The economy of the commune is primarily directed towards agriculture and the breeding (bovines and sheep). The manufacture of farm cheeses is also one of the resources of the commune.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

  • Firm of XVe, XVIe and XIXe centuries (cattle shed, baker's oven, pigsty, hayloft).
  • House of Master the Castle , XIVe, XVIIe, XVIIIe and XIXe centuries.
  • Station on the Line Pau-Canfranc, closed with the traffic since 1970.

Religious heritage

  • Church Saint-Pierre of This, XIIe century, renovated XVIIe century.
  • Parish church St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, XIXe century.

Equipment

Personalities related to the commune

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