Urt

Urt is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine. It is located at the edge of the Adour at 15 km of Bayonne.

The inhabitants are Urtois and Urtoises.

Located in the province of the Labourd, Urt currently forms part of the Basque Country. It however belonged to the Gascogne, and the Gascon was still used there there is little.

Its Basque name is Ahurti .

Geography

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the Adour, and its affluent, the Joyeuse and by the tributaries of this one, the Marmareko Erreka, the brook of Lartasso and Eyhéracharko erreka.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Urt appears in the forms Aurt (1193, cartulaire of Bayonne), Hurt (1243, titles of Camara de Comptos), Aourt (XIIIe century, collection Duchesne volume CXIV), Beata Maria d' Urt (1686, collations of the diocese of Bayonne) and Freedom (1793).

History

Paul Raymond note which the seigniory of Urt belonged to the duchy of Gramont.

The existence of sites going back to paleolithic and the certificate later of a brotherhood of fishermen (abbey of Sordes in the year 1040) testify to the strategic importance of this place.

Heraldic

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one takes part in twelve inter-commune structures:

  • Mixed trade-union of studies and follow-up of the SCOT of the agglomeration of Bayonne and Sud of the Moors

  • Nive-Adour-Ursuia Mixed trade-union for the development of the Countries of Hasparren and Adour
  • Intercommunity association of protection of the banks of maritime Adour and of its affluents
  • Intercommunity association for the management of the center Txakurrak
  • Intercommunity association for the artisanal zone of Ayherre
  • Bil Mixed trade-union Your Garbi
  • Trade union for the support for the Basque culture
  • Mixed trade-union of drinking water supply URA
  • Mixed trade-union of cleansing URA
  • autonomous Trade union of cleansing of Adour
  • Trade union AEP of Arberoue
  • Trade union departmental of electrification.

Demography

Economy

The activity of the commune is mainly agricultural.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

  • the vault of the Immaculate-Design, which shelters a high altar and a whole of seven canopies.
  • the church of the Assumption-of-the-Happy-Virgin-Marie who contains an ex-voto (model of boat) and a table of Rene-Marie Castaing representing holy Benoît.

The commune shelters two religious communities bénédictines:

  • the Monastery Holy-Scholastique (bénédictines) including a church which conceals a decorated chorus, a gate vault in mosaic, a high altar and a whole of two furnace bridges.
  • the Abbey Notre-Dame de Belloc (Benedictines).

Environmental inheritance

A race of bovines, the blonde of Urt (animals with russet-red hair, of intermediate size and strongly constructed), adapted very well to work of cartages and ploughings in rough ground, still existed at the beginning of the XXe century, constituting with the Béarnaise and the Lourdaise the blonde of the Pyrenees, located in mountain in the south of the Aquitanian basin, and specialized in the production of Lait for making of cheeses.

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school.

Personalities related to the commune

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