Arricau-Bordes

Arricau-Bordes
Commune
The road into Arricau-Bordes
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Coordinates: 43°29′39″N 0°08′01″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Terres des Luys et Coteaux du Vic-Bilh
Intercommunality	Nord-Est Béarn
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Marie-Odile Rigaud[1]
Area ^1	8.10 km^2 (3.13 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	106
• Density	13/km^2 (34/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64052 /64350
Elevation	140–299 m (459–981 ft) (avg. 284 m or 932 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arricau-Bordes (French pronunciation: [aʁiko bɔʁd]; Occitan: Arricau e Bòrdas) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

Geography

View of Arricau-Bordes

Some houses in the village

Arricau-Bordes is located some 12 km north-west of Maubourguet and some 40 km north-east of Pau. Access to the commune is by the D13 road from Cadillon in the north passing through the heart of the commune and through the village then continuing south to Lembeye. The D298 from Aurions-Idernes forms the entire eastern border of the commune as it goes south to join the D13 north of Lembaye. The D228 comes from Séméacq-Blachon in the east and passes through the south of the commune west to Gayon. About 60% of the commune is forested mostly in a north–south belt through the centre with the rest of the commune farmland.[3]

The Lisau river flows through the heart of the commune from the Lac de Castillon just over the southern border to the Lac de Cadillon just over the northern border of the commune.[3]

Places and Hamlets

• Arricau
• Les Balances
• Barbé
• Bordes
• Le Calvaire
• Carboué
• Castagnat
• Cazenave
• Cerisère
• Domengé[4]
• Hauzoué
• Lahitole[4][5]
• Laramoune
• Lecher
• Marchand
• Mereït
• Pédéjouan
• Péhat
• La Riberette
• Séglères
• Tisné
• Val Pré

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Neighbouring communes and villages

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Toponymy

The commune name in béarnais is Arricau-Bordas.

According to Michel Grosclaude the name Arricau was formed from two Gascon terms: arric, meaning "ravine" or "Thalweg", and cau, meaning "sunken".[7]

Bordes comes from the Occitan borda meaning "house" or "Farm".[8]

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

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Arricau	Arricau	12th century	Raymond	12	Marca	Village
	Arricau	1385	Raymond	12	Census
	Ricau	14th century	Raymond	12	Census
	Arricau-Viele	1538	Raymond	12	Reformation
Bordes	Bordas	11th century	Raymond	33	Lescar	Village
	Bordes en Vic-Bilh	1673	Raymond	33	Reformation
Domengé	L'ostau de Domenger	1385	Raymond	56	Census	Farm
Lahitole	La Fitola	1538	Raymond	89	Reformation	Hamlet
	Lahitolle	1673	Raymond	89	Reformation
	Lafitole	1863	Raymond	89
	La Fitole	1863	Raymond	89
Nouguès	Noguer	1385	Raymond	123	Census	Farm
Saint-Martin	Saint-Martin	1863	Raymond	150		Hamlet

Sources:

• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)[4]

Origins:

• Marca: Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn.[9]
• Census: Census of Béarn[10]
• Reformation: Reformation of Béarn[11]
• Lescar: Cartulary of Lescar[12]

History

Paul Raymond noted that, in 1385, Arricau and Bordes depended on the bailiwick of Lembeye and had respectively 18 and 12 fires. Arricau then had two parishes: Saint-Martin and Saint-Jacques. The fief of Bordes depended on the Viscounts of Béarn.[4]

Arricau and Bordes were merged between 1861 and 1866.[13]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[14]

From	To	Name
1995	2008	Jean-Paul Cassou
2008	2014	Frédéric Cerisère
2014	2026	Marie-Odile Rigaud

Inter-communality

The commune is part of four inter-communal structures:[15]

• the Communauté de communes du Nord-Est Béarn;
• the AEP association of Pays de Lembeye;
• the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
• the irrigation association of the Lees valley;

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 108 inhabitants. The population data given in the table and graph below for 1861 and earlier refer to the former commune of Arricau.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 250 —     1800 180 −4.58% 1821 263 +1.82% 1831 213 −2.09% 1836 301 +7.16% 1841 290 −0.74% 1846 269 −1.49% 1851 249 −1.53% 1856 231 −1.49% 1861 215 −1.43% 1866 326 +8.68% 1872 336 +0.50% 1876 326 −0.75% 1881 344 +1.08% 1886 338 −0.35% 1891 312 −1.59% 1896 280 −2.14% 1901 267 −0.95%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 226 −3.28% 1911 228 +0.18% 1921 192 −1.70% 1926 178 −1.50% 1931 178 +0.00% 1936 172 −0.68% 1946 150 −1.36% 1954 118 −2.95% 1962 139 +2.07% 1968 124 −1.89% 1975 126 +0.23% 1982 105 −2.57% 1990 102 −0.36% 1999 105 +0.32% 2007 105 +0.00% 2012 107 +0.38% 2017 108 +0.19%
Source: EHESS[13] and INSEE[16]

Economy

The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zones of Madiran, Pacherenc-du-vic-bilh, and Béarn.

Culture and Heritage

Civil heritage

Chateau of Arricau in 1926

The commune has many sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Chateau of Arricau (1572)[17] The Chateau contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
  • An Iron Host (17th century)[18]
  • A Stoup (18th century)[19]
  • An Hilarri (16th century)[20]
• The Chateau of Bordes at Bordes (18th century)[5]
• A House at Lahitole (1777)[5]
• Houses and Farms[21] Of the 40 buildings studied, 27 dated from before 1871.[21]

Religious heritage

The commune has two churches that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Parish Church of Saint-Jacques at Arricau (1570)[22] was mentioned in 1570 but was destroyed two centuries later.
• The Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist at Bordes (11th century)[23] The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
  • Chasuble (19th century)[24]
  • 2 Processional Lanterns (19th century)[25]
  • A Processional Cross (17th century)[26]
  • A Celebrant's Chair (18th century)[27]
  • An Altar, Altar step, and Tabernacle (18th century)[28]

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Google Maps
4. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
5. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026443 Chateau of Bordes (in French)
6. Géoportail, IGN (in French)
7. Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (in French)
8. Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (in French)
9. Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn
10. Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
11. Manuscript from the 16th to 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
12. Cartulary of the Bishop of Lescar, published in the proofs of the History of Béarn by Pierre de Marca (in French)
13. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Arricau-Bordes, EHESS (in French).
14. List of Mayors of France (in French)
15. Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Archived 2014-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 9 March 2012 (in French)
16. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
17. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00084317 IA00026441 Chateau of Arricau(in French)
18. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002098 Iron Host (in French)
19. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002097 Stoup (in French)
20. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002096 Hilarri (in French)
21. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027294 Houses and Farms (in French)
22. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00027519 Parish Church of Saint-Jacques (in French)
23. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026444 Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist (in French)
24. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002103 Chasuble (in French)
25. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002102 2 Processional Lanterns (in French)
26. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002101 Processional Cross (in French)
27. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002100 Celebrant's Chair (in French)
28. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64002099 Altar, Altar step, and Tabernacle (in French)

External links

• Arricau-Bordes on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Saint Martin d'Arricau, Saint Jacques d'Arricau, and Bordes on the 1750 Cassini Map