Aressy

Aressy
The Lagoin river at the church
Aressy
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region  Aressy
Coordinates: 43°16′38″N 0°19′23″W / 43.2772°N 0.3231°WCoordinates: 43°16′38″N 0°19′23″W / 43.2772°N 0.3231°W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Pau-Sud
Intercommunality	Gave et Coteaux
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Claude Ferrato
Area^1	2.15 km^2 (0.83 sq mi)
Population (2009)^2	609
• Density	280/km^2 (730/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	64041 / 64320
Elevation	179–244 m (587–801 ft) (avg. 241 m or 791 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Aressy (Arèci in Occitan) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arésyiens or Arésyiennes^[1]

Geography

Aressy is located four kilometres south-east of Pau within the urban area of Pau. Access to the commune is by the D937 road from Pau which continues south-east to Meillon.^[2]

The Idelis bus route P23 stops at Aressy Clinic at Pôle Bosquet. The commune is also served by Route 835 of the Interurban network of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (Transports 64) between Bénéjacq and Pau, and by Route 805 between Lourdes and Pau.

Much of the commune is residential with some farmland and a large lake in the south.

The Gave de Pau flows north-west through the western part of the commune and the Lagoin flows through the centre of the commune before joining the Gave de Pau just north-west of the commune.

Places and Hamlets

• Las Costes
• Labielle
• Marque
• Matachot
• Le Saligat^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

Toponymy

Its name in Bearnais is Aressi (according to the classical norm of Occitan).

Brigitte Jobbé-Duval^[4] indicates that the place name could come from the Basque, meaning "place where there are rocks" which would confirm the hypothesis by Michel Grosclaude^[5] of ar- ("stone or rock") with the Basque locative suffix -etz transformed into -esse.

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

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Aressy	Aressa	1010	Jobbé			Village
	Aressa	1101	Raymond	9	Lescar
	Aresi	12th century	Raymond	9	Lescar
	Arecii	1376	Raymond	9	Military
	Eressi	1385	Raymond	9	Census
	Arecii	1538	Raymond	9	Reformation
	Arressii	1546	Raymond	9	Reformation
	Aressy	1750	Cassini
	Arressy	1793	Ldh/EHESS/Cassini
Le Junca	Le Junca	1863	Raymond	86		Place
Les Pelades	Les Pelades	1863	Raymond	133		Place
Le Saliga	Le Saliga	1863	Raymond	133		Moor
Le Tuquet	Le Tuquet	1863	Raymond	169		Wood

Sources:

• Jobbé: Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques^[4]
• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (French)^[3]
• Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (French)^[5]
• Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750^[6]
• Ldh/EHESS/Cassini: Ldh/EHESS/Cassini database (French)

Origins:

• Lescar: Cartulary of Lescar^[7]
• Military: Military Inspection of Béarn^[8]
• Census: Census of Béarn^[9]
• Reformation: Reformation of Béarn^[10]

History

Paul Raymond noted on page 9 of his dictionary that the commune had a Lay Abbey, vassal of the Viscounts of Béarn. In 1385 Aressy had nine fires and depended on the bailiwick of Pau.^[3]

Administration

The Town Hall

Aressy Medical Centre

List of Successive Mayors^[11]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2001	Monique Lanusse-Cazalé
2001	2020	Claude Ferrato	MoDem

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

Aressy is part of nine inter-communal structures:

• the Public agency of local management;
• the Community of communes Gave et Coteaux;
• the AEP association for the Jurançon region;
• the defense against floods association for the Lagoin catchment area;
• the energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
• the inter-communal associatuion for the Narcastet leisure centre;
• the inter-communal association for defense against flooding of the Gave de Pau;
• the inter-communal association for the construction and operation of the CES of Bizanos;
• the Joint association for urban transport Pau - Porte des Pyrenees

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 609 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
480	215	202	230	276	273	288	314	313

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
334	345	343	360	355	368	374	345	326

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
346	328	321	320	357	429	418	416	450

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
399	476	601	578	546	543	550	609	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Aressy War Memoprial

Aressy is part of the urban area of Pau.

Economy

The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zone designation of Ossau-iraty.

Culture and Heritage

The Church of Saint Denys

Religious heritage

The Parish Church of Saint Denys (1874) is registered as an historical monument.^[12]

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
2. Google Maps
3. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (French)
4. Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (French)
5. Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3 (French)
6. Cassini Map 1750 – Aressy
7. Cartulary of the Bishop of Lescar, published in the proofs of the History of Béarn by Pierre de Marca (French)
8. Manuscript from 1376 in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
9. Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
10. Manuscript from the 16th to 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
11. List of Mayors of France
12. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000643 Parish Church of Saint Denys (French)

External links

• Aressy on Lion1906
• Areßy on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Aressy on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)