Sauvelade

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

Geography

The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Laà, affluent of the Gave of Pau.

Communes bordering

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle.
One comes from Arthez-with-Béarn, the next commune is Navarrenx, his ramparts, and his German Saint church.

History

Administration

Demography

Culture and Inheritance

The Notre-Dame abbey

History

Based on April 6th, 1128 jointly by Gaston IV the Crusader, Viscount of Béarn, on the point to take the departure to take part in the crusade in Spain, its wife and her son, and placed under the term of Notre-Dame. By granting to the Benedictines this ground of “Sylva lata” (Séube Lade as old inhabitant of Béarn), whose historians discussed if it meant: " forest profonde" , " forest of Laà" or " forest rivets gauche".
The abbey took, with an unspecified date, but in any case before 1286, the name of Saint-Jacob, its frequentation by the jacquets signs.
The abbey was taken again in 1286 by the cistercians of Gimont (Gers), and, consequently, its role in the reception of the pilgrims probably declined, because it is known that the disciples of Bernard saint hardly supported the worship of the relics and the pèlerinages.
Devastated in 1569 by the huguenots, raised in 1630 by the Counter-Reformation.
The Revolution made abbey parish church and sold the monastery.
Dilapidated, it has just been repurchased and restored by the commune, with the assistance of the department, to be used as arts center, allowing lodging.

Description

The abbey, of the 12th century, on the pastoral edges of Laà, has a form of Greek cross, already visible of outside with the very harmonious roofs in cascade: slate cone on the cupola of transept crossing, sides of tiles punts to horse on the four arms, the staircase, absidioles, the sacristy.
The interior is of a beautiful examination cistercian, except the furnace bridges of a naive rural baroque and the stoup, fact of a barrel of column between two Corinthian capitals, vestiges undoubtedly of a villa romaine.
At side, the vast monastery of the 17th century.

Famous people

Births

Death

  • Michel Grosclaude, specialist in the inhabitant of Béarn.

Internal bond

Common of the Yrénées-Atlantiques

External bonds

Official site


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