Auterrive

Auterrive
A solar clock face at Auterrive A solar clock face at Auterrive
Coat of arms of Auterrive Coat of arms
Auterrive
Location within Aquitaine region Auterrive
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Salies-de-Béarn
Intercommunality	Salies-de-Béarn
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Philippe Labache
Area1	3.08 km2 (1.19 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	123
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	64082 / 64270
Elevation	16–35 m (52–115 ft) (avg. 22 m or 72 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.

Auterrive is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Aquitaine region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Auterriverains or Auterriveraines.

Geography

Auterrive is located some 14 km south-east of Peyrehorade and 7 km west of Salies-de-Béarn. Access to the commune is by the D29 road from Carresse-Cassaber in the north which passes just west of the village and continues south-west to Labastide-Villefranche. Access to the village is by local roads connecting to the D29. The D28 road goes south from Saint-Dos through the west of the commune and continues to Escos in the south. The D277 goes from the D29 just west to the village west to Saint-Dos. Apart from forest along the river bank and some small forests in the west of the commune the land is all farmland.

Auterrive is a Gascon village, which fully depended on Dax and is nowhere mentioned as Bearnais. Paul Raymond reported a record from 1675 when the village was referred to as Autarrive en France. Pierre-Tucoo Chala indicated a peculiarity concerning Carresse-Cassaber: the Auterrive bridge is not on the border but Gascony had a bridgehead on the right bank of the Gave d'Oloron on what is now the territory of the Béarnais village of Carresse. This area did not touch the river at the bridge and purists could say that the béarnais commune of today has incorporated a few hectares of Gascon land.

The commune is in the drainage basin of the Adour. The area east of the village is an island enclosed by a loop of the Gave d'Oloron and a stream which crosses the loop (although the Gave d'Oloron is not the border of the commune).

Places and hamlets

• Boucau
• Le Désert
• Dumirail
• Durancou
• Labarthe
• Lahosse
• Larribère (Mill)
• Maysonnave
• Minoterie
• Noutary
• Terrenabe

Toponymy

The commune name in béarnais is Autarriba. For Michel Grosclaude the origin of the name is unquestionably Gascon, auta arriba from the Latin alta ripa meaning "high river".

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

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Auterrive	Autarribe	13th century	Raymond	17	Bayonne	Village
	Autaribe	1360	Raymond	17	Came
	Sent-Miqueu d'Autarribe	1442	Raymond	17	Notaries
	Autarrive en France	1675	Raymond	17	Reformation
	Hauterive	1750	Cassini
Dumirail	Dumirail	1863	Raymond	57		Hamlet and Lake

Sources:

• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (French)
• Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (French)
• Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750

Origins:

• Bayonne: Cartulary of Bayonne or Livre d'Or (Book of Gold)
• Came: Titles of Came
• Notaries: Notaries of Labastide-Villefranche
• Reformation: Reformation of Béarn

History

Paul Raymond noted on page 17 of his 1863 dictionary that Auterrive depended on the sub-delegation of Dax.

Heraldry

Arms of Auterrive

Auterrive depicts a Jay in the arms to symbolize the defensive site of Barry. The Jay is reputed to give an alarm when an intruder enters a wood. Blazon: Quarterly, at 1 and 4 Gules, a Jay in flight of Argent; at 2 and 3 Argent, a lion of Gules.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2014	Josette de Caumia-Baillenx
2014	2020	Philippe Labache

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

The commune is part of seven inter-communal structures:

• the Community of communes of Salies-de-Béarn;
• the SIGOM;
• the SIVU of five villages;
• the SIVU for educational regrouping of Léren, Saint-Pé-de-Léren, Saint-Dos et Auterrive;
• the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
• the inter-communal association for the management of drinking water from the Saleys and its gaves;
• the inter-communal association for gaves and the Saleys;

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 123 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 communes that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
245	255	287	298	300	301	287	313	345

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
320	311	302	309	289	284	281	253	265

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
240	230	248	200	202	205	212	226	201

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
195	195	163	151	146	137	128	123	-

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

File:Population - Municipality code 64082.svg

Population of Auterrive

Economy

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

Culture and Heritage

File:Eglise de Auterrive.JPG

Auterrive church

Civil heritage

• At the foot of the Gave there is the Barry fortress which was an observation and border post between Navarre, Béarn, and Gascony. This small enclosure had a garrison of three soldiers until 1682. The currently existing ruins, although based on much older foundations, seem to date back to the Hundred Years War when Auterrive was occupied by the English and attached to the Seneschal of Hastings.
• The Maisonnabe House in the Mirails district dates to 1661;
• The Pouey House is an old manor house of justice
• The Hau House is a former dependency of the Abbey of Sorde.

There is a small enamelled plate which says "June 1875" that recalls the flood which swept away the village bridge killing two people in that year.

Religious heritage

• The Church dates from the 16th century.
• There are several Calvaries including a cross of Saint-Michel which formerly marked the boundaries of the Abbey of Sorde.
• There was a Chapel in the Mirails district which was recently destroyed.

Environmental heritage

• Lake Dumirail is south-west of the commune.

Amenities

There is a holiday and leisure centre at Auterrive (Les Francas).

Notable people linked to the commune

• The Marquise de Montehermoso (1784 to 1869), born Countess Maria-Pilar d'Acedo, Countess of Echauz, widow of the Marquis of the same name and mistress of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, married in the village to Amédée of Carabène, the holder of numerous French and foreign decorations, future general counsel and senior officer of the Napoleonic campaigns. She was also the owner of Barry, the fortified site in the village.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

Bibliography

• Alexis Ichas, History of Auterrive - Vols. I & II, Éditions Atlantica (French)
• Alexis Ichas, History of gaves, Éditions Atlantica (French)
• Alexis Ichas, Béarnais Chronicles of gave and the Saleys, Éditions Atlantica, 2006 (French)

External links

• Auterrive on Lion1906
• Auterrive on Google Maps
• Auterrive on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Hauterive on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Auterrive on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)