Lestelle-Bétharram

Lestelle-Bétharram
Commune
General view of the sanctuaries of Bétharram

Coat of arms
Lestelle-Bétharram
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
Lestelle-Bétharram
Coordinates: 43°07′51″N 0°12′30″W / 43.1308°N 0.2083°W / 43.1308; -0.2083Coordinates: 43°07′51″N 0°12′30″W / 43.1308°N 0.2083°W / 43.1308; -0.2083
Country France
Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement Pau
Canton Vallées de l'Ousse et du Lagoin
Intercommunality Communauté de communes de la Vath Vielha
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Jean-Marie Berchon
Area1 8.63 km2 (3.33 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 802
 • Density 93/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 64339 /64800
Elevation 278–481 m (912–1,578 ft)
(avg. 294 m or 965 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.

Lestelle-Bétharram is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

History

In 1832, St. Michel Garicoits established the Society of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Betharram.

On 5 July 1940, Carl Einstein, nephew of the famous physicist Albert Einstein, committed suicide here. An anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, he had been interned in France after the rebel Nationalist victory. Although he had escaped in the turmoil following the German invasion of France, he chose death as the solution to an impossible situation.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lester, David (2005). Suicide and the Holocaust. Nova Publishers. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-59454-427-9.


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