Barzun, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

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Barzun
Commune
The Town hall
The Town hall
Location of Barzun
Barzun is located in France
Barzun
Barzun
Coordinates: 43°12′53″N 0°07′41″W / 43.2147°N 0.1281°W / 43.2147; -0.1281Coordinates: 43°12′53″N 0°07′41″W / 43.2147°N 0.1281°W / 43.2147; -0.1281
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementPau
CantonVallées de l'Ousse et du Lagoin
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) René Millet
Area
1
8.19 km2 (3.16 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2018)[1]
600
 • Density73/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64097 /64530
Elevation323–435 m (1,060–1,427 ft)
(avg. 388 m or 1,273 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Barzun is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.[2]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barzunais or Barzunaises.[3]

Geography[]

Barzun is located some 20 km east by south-east of Pau and 15 km north-west of Lourdes. Access to the commune is by the D940 road from Espoey in the north-west which passes through the commune just west of the village and continues south to Lamarque-Pontacq. The D640 comes from Livron in the north and passes through the village continuing to Pontacq in the south. The D642 and the D418 connect the D940 to the village. The D42 passes through the eastern tip of the commune. The commune is all farmland except for a belt of forest east of and parallel to the Ruisseau de l'Ousse.[4][5]

The Ruisseau de l'Ousse flows through the commune and the village from south-east to north and continues north to join the Gave de Pau at Pau. The Oussère river flows parallel to the Ruisseau de l'Ousse west of the village until they join north of the commune. The Sausse forms the western border of the commune as it flows north to join the Ourrou north-west of the commune. The Hoursoumou and the Ruisseau du Goua de Michou flow parallel to each other north through the east of the commune continuing to join the Gabas Lake at Luquet.[4][5]

Places and hamlets[]

  • Arribarrouy
  • Balagué
  • Batailles
  • Bédat
  • Bédat et Sarrailh
  • Boyrie
  • Capblan
  • Cazaillet
  • Cazala (barn)
  • Las Cordes
  • La Débèze
  • Goua (bridge)
  • Grada (barn)
  • Hourcaspy
  • Hourmiau
  • Hourq Mayou et Espélague
  • Labourdette
  • Lanas
  • Lapalangue (bridge)
  • Larbiouze (barn)
  • Larroutis
  • Layrisse (barn)
  • Lupié Thén[6]
  • Moulat
  • Nargasse (barn)
  • Pardimène (mill)
  • Pène
  • Pistoulet (barn)
  • Le Poublan
  • Ramounet
  • Técous et Labie
  • Tisnères (barn)

[5]

Toponymy[]

A fountain at the entrance to Barzun dated 1879

Michel Grosclaude said that the name probably comes from the Latin anthroponym Barisius with the suffix -unum.[7]

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Name Spelling Date Source Page Origin Description
Barzun Barzunum 1286 Raymond
22
 Chapter Village
Barsuu 1385 Grosclaude Census
Barsun 1402 Raymond
22
 Census
Barssun 1538 Raymond
22
 Reformation
Barfun 1750 Cassini1
Barjun 1790 Cassini2
Lupié Thén Le Lupié 1863 Raymond
106
 Hamlet
Les Mouras Les Mouras 1863 Raymond
119
 Place
Le Pardiacq Le Pardiacq 1863 Raymond
131
 Place
La Peyrade La Peyrade 1863 Raymond
134
 Place

Sources:

Origins:

  • Chapter: Titles of the Chapter of Béarn[10]
  • Census: Census of Béarn[11]
  • Reformation: Reformation of Béarn[12]

History[]

Paul Raymond noted of page 22 of his 1863 dictionary that Barzun had 13 fires in 1385 and depended on the bailiwick of Pau.

In the 18th century Barzun was the chief town for the notary of Rivière-Ousse which comprised Artigueloutan, Barzun, Espoey, Gomer, Hours, Lée, Livron, Louboey, Lucgarier, Nousty, Ousse, Sendets, and Soumoulou.[6]

Administration[]

List of Successive Mayors[13]

From To Name
1995 2001 Alfred Prat-Bernachot
2001 2020 Maurice Minvielle
2020 2026 René Millet

Inter-communality[]

The Barzun dolmen (Neolithic)

The commune is part of four inter-communal structures:

  • the Communauté de communes du Nord-Est Béarn;
  • the water management association of the Ousse basin
  • the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
  • the inter-communal association for water and sanitation in the Ousse valley;

Education[]

The commune has a public primary school.[14]

Demography[]

In 2017 the commune had 591 inhabitants.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 505—    
1800 525+0.56%
1806 555+0.93%
1821 607+0.60%
1831 639+0.52%
1836 680+1.25%
1841 717+1.07%
1846 697−0.56%
1851 702+0.14%
1856 691−0.32%
1861 660−0.91%
1866 657−0.09%
1872 648−0.23%
1876 630−0.70%
1881 612−0.58%
1886 570−1.41%
1891 547−0.82%
1896 521−0.97%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 519−0.08%
1906 516−0.12%
1911 502−0.55%
1921 425−1.65%
1926 411−0.67%
1931 409−0.10%
1936 394−0.74%
1946 347−1.26%
1954 399+1.76%
1962 409+0.31%
1968 365−1.88%
1975 363−0.08%
1982 401+1.43%
1990 455+1.59%
1999 464+0.22%
2007 608+3.44%
2012 597−0.36%
2017 591−0.20%
Source: EHESS[15] and INSEE[16]
The War Memorial

Economy[]

The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée of Ossau-iraty

Culture and heritage[]

The Church of Saint Vincent Diacre

Religious heritage[]

The Parish Church of Saint Vincent Diacre (1854)Logo monument historique - rouge sans texte.svg is registered as an historical monument.[17]

Notable people linked to the commune[]

  • Louis Pardimène, born on 15 July 1880 in Barzun, son of Pierre and Marie Ribes, soldier in the 83rd Infantry Regiment who was shot as an example on 7 January 1915 at Châlons-sur-Marne.
  • Pierre-Marie Théas, born in 1894 at Barzun and died in 1977, was a French Catholic religious, Bishop of Montauban then of the Diocese of Tarbes-et-Lourdes.
  • Gaëtan Paletou, Racing driver who participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
  2. ^ Barzun on Lion1906
  3. ^ Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Barzun on Google Maps
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Barzun on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3(in French)
  8. ^ Barfun on the 1750 Cassini Map
  9. ^ Barjun on the 1790 Cassini Map
  10. ^ Titles of the Viscounts of Béarn in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  11. ^ Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  12. ^ Manuscript from the 16th to 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  13. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
  14. ^ Schools in Barzun (in French)
  15. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Barzun, EHESS. (in French)
  16. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  17. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000647 Parish Church of Saint Vincent Diacre (in French)


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