Aressy

Aressy
Commune
The Lagoin river at the church
Location of Aressy
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Coordinates: 43°16′38″N 0°19′23″W / 43.2772°N 0.3231°W / 43.2772; -0.3231
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Ouzom, Gave et Rives du Neez
Intercommunality	CA Pau Béarn Pyrénées
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Claude Ferrato[1]
Area 1	2.15 km2 (0.83 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	823
• Density	380/km2 (990/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

Aressy (French pronunciation: [aʁɛsi]; Occitan: Arèssi) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is part of the urban area (unité urbaine) of Pau.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.

• Las Costes
• Labielle
• Marque
• Matachot
• Le Saligat^[5]

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

Brigitte Jobbé-Duval^[6] indicates that the place name could come from the Basque, meaning "place where there are rocks" which would confirm the hypothesis by Michel Grosclaude^[7] 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.

Sources:

• Jobbé: Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques^[6]
• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)^[5]
• Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (in French)^[7]
• Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750^[8]
• Ldh/EHESS/Cassini: Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Aressy, EHESS (in French).

Origins:

• Lescar: Cartulary of Lescar^[9]
• Military: Military Inspection of Béarn^[10]
• Census: Census of Béarn^[11]
• Reformation: Reformation of Béarn^[12]

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.^[5]

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

List of Successive Mayors^[13]

Aressy is part of nine inter-communal structures:

• the Public agency of local management;
• the Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées;
• 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 association 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

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arésyiens or Arésyiennes in French.^[14]

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

The Parish Church of Saint Denys (1874) is registered as an historical monument.^[17]

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

• Areßy on the 1750 Cassini Map

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