Montaut, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

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

Montaut
Commune
Location of Montaut
Montaut
Montaut
Coordinates: 43°08′N 0°11′W
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementPau
CantonVallées de l'Ousse et du Lagoin
IntercommunalityVath Vielha
Government
 • Mayor (2001–2008) François Escalé
Area
1
15.41 km2 (5.95 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
1,110
 • Density72/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64400 /64800
Elevation278–553 m (912–1,814 ft)
(avg. 315 m or 1,033 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Location

Montaut is situated at the east of the department, 25 km south-east of Pau. The commune is bordering the department of Hautes-Pyrénées.

Access

The commune is served by departmental roads 212, 812 and a national road, as well as by the SNCF Line Toulouse-Bayonne and Line 8 of the departmental buses of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.[2]

Hydrography

The lands of the commune are watered by the Gave of Pau, tributary of the Adour, and by its tributaries, the stream of Siot (fed on Montaut by the streams of the Uchas and Bignes) and the Mouscle, itself joined on the commune by the stream, the Mousclère.

Places and Hamlets
  • Annette
  • Loustau
  • Pasquine
  • Village
  • Hameau d'en Bas
  • Hameau d'en Haut
  • Content
  • Sarusse

Toponymy

The toponym Montaut appears in the forms Mont-Altus and the bastide of Montaut (12835[3] and the 14th century respectively, titles of Béarn[4]) and Montaud (15355,[3] reformation of Béarn[5]).

Its Bearnese name is Montaut[6] or Mountaut.[7]

History

Montaut is a former bastide founded in 1327[3] by Marguerite de Moncade, the grandmother of Gaston III de Foix-Béarn. The original Bastidian plan still includes the remains of its past.

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. (in French) "Fiche horaires : Lourdes-Pau" (PDF). www.cg64.fr. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
  3. Paul Raymond (archiviste)|Paul Raymond, Dictionnaire topographique Béarn-Pays basque
  4. Titres de la vicomté de Béarn - Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques
  5. Réformation de Béarn. manuscrits du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
  6. Ostau Bearnes. "Toponymie des communes béarnaises selon la graphie classique" (PDF). Retrieved 26 January 2019..
  7. Institut béarnais et gascon. "Toponymie des communes béarnaises selon la graphie moderne" (PDF). Retrieved 26 January 2019..


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