Anos, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Anos
Commune
Town hall
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Pays de Morlaàs et du Montanérès
Intercommunality	Nord Est Béarn
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christelle Desclaux
Area1	1.79 km2 (0.69 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)2
INSEE/Postal code	64027 / 64160
Elevation	199–305 m (653–1,001 ft) (avg. 250 m or 820 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.

Anos (French pronunciation: ​[anɔs]; Occitan: Anòs) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. It is part of the urban area (aire d'attraction des villes) of Pau.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Anosiens or Anosiennes

The recycling centre

The Main road from the Town Hall

Landscape from the Town Hall

Geography

Anos is located some 15 km north-east of Pau and 10 km south-east of Auriac. Access to the commune is by road D39 from Morlaas in the south passing north through the commune and the village and continuing north to join the D834 just north of Astis. Several other country roads also pass through the commune.

The Lau river forms the western border of the commune with the eastern shore of the Lake of Saint-Amour (also called the Lake of Anos) forming the part just west of the village. The Lau flows north to join the Luy de France which also forms the eastern border of the commune.

Historical Localities and hamlets

• Guilhem
• Guillaumet
• Guiraut
• Jouannes
• Lartigue
• Peyré
• Peys
• Puyau
• Tachoères

Toponymy

The commune name in Béarnais is Anòs (according to the classical norm of Occitan).

Brigitte Jobbé-Duval indicates that Anos could be of Gallic origin being the name of the property owner Andus plus the suffix -ossu with a proposed meaning of "Domain of Andus".

The name Anos was mentioned in 1243 in the Titles of Ossau and in the Cassini map in 1750).

History

Paul Raymond noted on page 6 of the 1863 dictionary that in the 14th century Anos belonged to the community of Preachers of Morlaàs.

The commune was part of the archdeaconry of Vic-Bihl which depended on the diocese of Lescar of which Lembeye was the capital.

Administration

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List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
1995	2008	Jacques Cantonnet
2008	2014	Patrick Yacger
2014	2026	Christelle Desclaux

Inter-communality

Anos is part of five inter-communal structures:

• The Communauté de communes du Nord-Est Béarn;
• The SIVU for the maintenance of roads, parks and buildings in Barinque;
• The AEP association for the Regions of Luy and Gabas;
• The Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
• The iner-communal association for irrigation of Anos - Saint-Armou.

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 192 inhabitants.

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 94 —     1800 86 −1.26% 1821 81 −0.28% 1831 108 +2.92% 1836 126 +3.13% 1841 124 −0.32% 1846 129 +0.79% 1851 95 −5.94% 1856 86 −1.97% 1861 94 +1.79% 1866 108 +2.82% 1872 99 −1.44%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1876 99 +0.00% 1881 92 −1.46% 1886 89 −0.66% 1891 86 −0.68% 1896 86 +0.00% 1901 89 +0.69% 1906 75 −3.37% 1911 82 +1.80% 1921 67 −2.00% 1926 73 +1.73% 1931 67 −1.70% 1936 65 −0.60%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1946 58 −1.13% 1954 53 −1.12% 1962 58 +1.13% 1968 40 −6.00% 1975 44 +1.37% 1982 62 +5.02% 1990 120 +8.60% 1999 149 +2.43% 2007 185 +2.74% 2012 185 +0.00% 2017 192 +0.75%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

Culture and Heritage

Civil heritage

• The Maison Tachoères farmhouse (1768) is registered as an historical monument.
• Other Houses and Farms (18th-19th century) are also registered as historical monuments.

Religious heritage

• The Parish Church of Saint-Laurent (11th century) is registered as an historical monument.

Environmental heritage

An artificial lake called Lake Saint-Armou or Lake of Anos is on the border between the two communes.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

External links

• Anos on the 1750 Cassini Map