Aldudes

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Commune
Nive River
Coat of arms
Location of Aldudes
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Coordinates: 43°05′49″N 1°25′28″W / 43.0969°N 1.4244°W / 43.0969; -1.4244
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Bayonne
Canton	Montagne Basque
Intercommunality	Pays Basque
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Martin Suquilbide[1]
Area 1	23.27 km2 (8.98 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	321
• Density	14/km2 (36/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64016 /64430
Elevation	345–1,000 m (1,132–3,281 ft) (avg. 485 m or 1,591 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Aldudes (French pronunciation: [aldyd]; Basque: Aldude) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.

It is located in the former province of Lower Navarre.

Geography

Location

The village Aldudes is part of Le Pays Quint^[3] (Kintoa in Basque or Quinto Real in Spanish). The commune is an area of pasture belonging to Spain but cultivated by French farmers.

It is located in the Aldudes valley on the banks of the Nive des Aldudes in the Basque province of Lower Navarre. It is on the Spanish border some 20 km southwest of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port although it can not be directly accessed from there.

Access

Access is by the D948 road from

Hydrography

Located in the watershed of the Adour, Aldudes is traversed by the Nive d'Aldudes with its many tributaries, such as the Urbeltch Labiaringo erreka, the Aktieltako erreka, and numerous unnamed streams. Paul Raymond mentioned^[5] the Autrin, a stream which rises in Aldudes and joins the Nive des Aldudes.

Localities and hamlets

^[10]

Toponymy

The name of the commune in Basque is Aldude. Aldudes was also the name given to the entire valley bordering the Baigorry Valley and the Spanish border.^[5]

Jean-Baptiste Orpustan proposes the construction ald(a)-uhide meaning "the path beside the water".^[11] According to Ernest Nègre however, the name Aldudes is a contraction of the basque Aldubide meaning "way to the summits" from the root aldu meaning "heights" and bide meaning "way".^[12] The romanisation into Aldudes is actually a plural.

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

Sources:

• Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy^[11]
• Mérimée: Ministry of Culture Mérimée database: Presentation of the Commune^[3]),
• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)^[5]

Origins: Camara: Titles of Camara de Comptos^[13]

History

The commune originated in the 16th century when young noblemen of the Baigory family founded the village which, by the ancient Basque succession rule, reserved the legacy of the family house exclusively to the eldest child. The parish was established in 1793.^[3]

Heraldry

Blazon: Quarterly, first of gules bordered in Or charged with the monogram of the Virgin surmounted by a small cross the same all bordered in azure; second argent 3 wood-pigeons azure 2 and 1; third Or a Lachua glove posed in bend accompanied in sinister chief by a palote the whole proper; fourth gules a majuscule letter K of argent surmounted by a royal crown of Or.[14]

Administration

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2021)

List of Successive Mayors^[15]

Inter-communality

The commune of Aldudes participates in five intercommunal organisations:

• the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque
• the intercommunal association for the development and management of the slaughterhouse of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
• the joint association of the watershed of the Nive
• the association to support Basque culture
• the energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Population

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aldulais in French.^[16]

Economy

A fish farm is active on the road to Urepel.

The commune hosts the Ets Pierre Oteiza company (gourmet pork products) which is one of the fifty top agribusinesses in the department.

It is part of the

Culture and heritage

Languages

According to the Map of the Seven Basque Provinces, published in 1863 by Prince

Laxoa

In 1952 the square in front of the church and the town hall was converted into a playing field for "laxoa". This ancient game of

At the entrance porch of the church is the target for the game.

Civil heritage

The commune contains a number of sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• Houses and Farms (18th-19th century)^[18]
• The Menementa Farm (1827)^[9]
• The Iguxkagerrea Farm (18th century)^[7]
• The Joalginenborda Farm (19th century)^[8]

Other sites of interest

• Cromlechs: There are three Harrespils on the Argibel site. These are great circles of stone or "menhirs" for funerary purposes, dated from the 1st millennium BC. The Harrespil are notable due to their number (over 100 registered) and their witness to knowledge of ancient burial rites.

Religious Heritage

The commune has two religious sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• The 'Chapel of the Assumption (1868) at a place called Eznazu has been listed on the Inventory of cultural heritage since 21 March 2003.^[6] It contains a Retable and Statues (17th century) which are registered as historical objects.^[19]
• The Parish Church of Notre-Dame (17th century)^[20] has a rosary which belonged to the Emperor Maximilian.

Other religious sites of interest

• Some Hilarri in the cemetery are from the 19th century - two from 1805.

Environmental heritage

• Palombière is the property of the association of the Baigorry Valley. This hunt at 500 metres above sea level was created in 1840 by the mayor of the town, Charles Schmarsow. Reorganized in 1880, it then passed into the hands of the Ospital family who still lead the hunt. The five Filetiers use five pantières or special nets and ten beaters to direct the pigeons to the nets.

Picture Gallery

• 
  Church of Aldudes
• 
  The Church
• 
  The Bank
• 
  Salting along the Nive
• 
  The Weir on the Nive
• 
  The Roman bridge on the Nive
• 
  The Roman Bridge
• 
  The Roman Bridge
• 
  The Urepel Bridge over the Nive
• 
  The Urepel Bridge
• 
  The Urepel Valley
• 
  A

  Basque pig

  farm
• 
  The War Memorial

Facilities

Education

The commune has a private primary school (Mendi-Alde).

Notable People linked to the commune

• Georges Lacombe, born 31 January 1879 in
  First World War he prepared, with the help of Dr. Jean Etchepare,^[21][22]
  a doctorate in Letters on the Aldudes dialect.
• Bernard Delhom, born in 1885 in Aldudes, was the oldest man in France from 30 December 1995 to 7 February 1996 when he died in Paris aged 110 years and 213 days
• Indochina War and the Vietnam War

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department
• Cantons of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department
• Arrondissements of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

Notes

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". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. ^ ^{a b c} IA64000418 Presentation of the commune (in French)
4. ^ Google Maps
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
6. ^ ^{a b} Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000403 Chapel of the Assumption (in French)
7. ^ ^{a b} Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000455 Iguxkagerrea Farm (in French)
8. ^ ^{a b} Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000454 Joalginenborda Farm (in French)
9. ^ ^{a b} Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000456 Menementa Farm (in French)
10. IGN
    (in French)
11. ^
    ISBN 2 86781 396 4
    (in French)
12. ISBN 2 600 00133 6
    , No. 19228 (in French)
13. ^ Titles published by don José Yanguas y Miranda - Diccionario de Antiguedades del reino de Navarra, 1840, Pamplona (in Spanish)
14. ^ Guy Ascarat Archived November 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
15. ^ List of Mayors of France
16. ^ Pyrénées-Atlantiques, habitants.fr
17. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
18. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000487 Houses and Farms (in French)
19. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64000027 Retable and Statues (in French)
20. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000400 Parish Church of Notre-Dame (in French)
21. ^ (in Spanish) Centenario de Euskaltzaleen Biltzarra^{[permanent dead link]}
22. ^ "Official website of Euskaltzaleen Biltzarra". Archived from the original on 2010-10-05. Retrieved 2013-08-22.

External links

• Aldude in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) (in Spanish)
• les Aldudes on the 1750 Cassini Map

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