Athos-Aspis

See also: Athos (homonymy), Aspis (homonymy)

Athos-Aspis 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 Saison, the arrèc Héuré, Arrioutèque and the affluent of this last, the brook of Rancid.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Oraàs in north
Sauveterre-with-Béarn in the east
Abitain in the west
Autevielle-Saint-Martin-Bideren in south-west
Guinarthe-Parenties in the south.

Toponymy

The toponym Athos appears in the forms Atos (XIe century, according to Pierre de Marca) and Feels Per d' Atos (1472, notaries of Labastide-Villefranche).

The toponym Aspis appears in the forms Espis (1385, censier of Béarn), Espiis , Aespiis and Spiis (respectively 1544,1546 and 1548, reformation of Béarn).

History

Paul Raymond note that in 1385 Athos counted 19 fires and just like depended on the Bailliage of Sauveterre the stronghold of Aspis.
The villages of Athos and Aspis were joined together on January 10th, 1842.
During the Reform, the priest of Athos was massacred in his church and the village adopted the new ideas.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to six inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of Sauveterre-to-Béarn
intercommunity association of the gaves and Saleys
trade union AEP of Sauveterre-of-Béarn
departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

2006: provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

The activity is mainly agricultural.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Lascampagnes house, of the Gourlat consul.
Bouchoô house, native house of Mgr Bouchoô.
Moliède d' Athos, old house with its ploughed up mill.
castle of Aspis with terrace on the gave and carries to rinceaux.
mill of Aspis.

In Athos, in addition to the church of Romance origin, draw up the old stronghold of Moliède d' Athos where was a famous vat and the ruins of a moulin.
Aspis keeps its castle of XIVe century vis-a-vis the gave. One still finds there the site of the old church and the old school.

Religious heritage

the church of Romance origin. One finds there a stoup rebirth and a Virgin out of polychrome wooden. Behind the furnace bridge the burial of Jeanne of Peyrer " is; ram of Athos and Aspis" mother of the musketeer. The gate rebirth has a chrism of XIVe century to back (undoubtedly stone of re-employment).
cemetery: burial of the engineer originator of the bridge of Sauveterre and Edmond Gourlat, French Consul and local personality.

Environmental inheritance

Personalities related to the commune

The birth of the musketeer Athos in the commune is prone to discussion. A plate close to the church recalls that it was born in the Lassalle house of which there remain only sections of wall but the village of Autevielle asserts also its birth, just like the strong house from Moliède d' Athos, of which there remain forts murs.

Athos is the fatherland of Mgr Bouchoô, born in the Bouchoô house in 1797, bishop of Antalia in Turkey (Attalie) and apostolic administrator of the kingdom of Siam. The prelate rests in the cathedral of Georgetown in Malaysia.

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