La Bastide-de-Lordat

La Bastide-de-Lordat
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of La Bastide-de-Lordat
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Coordinates: 43°08′41″N 1°42′48″E / 43.1447°N 1.7133°E / 43.1447; 1.7133
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Pamiers
Canton	Portes d'Ariège
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jacqueline Pagliarino Freyche[1]
Area 1	5.97 km2 (2.31 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	290
• Density	49/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	09040 /09700
Elevation	249–315 m (817–1,033 ft) (avg. 300 m or 980 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Bastide-de-Lordat (French pronunciation: [la bastid də lɔʁda]; Occitan: La Bastida de Lordat) is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.^[3]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bastidiens or Bastidiennes.^[4]

La Bastide-de-Lordat is in the Pamiers urban area some 8 km east by north-east of Pamiers and 5 km north of Les Pujols. Access to the commune is by the D11 road from Pamiers which enters the west of the commune then turns north continuing to Belpech, changing to the D102 at the departmental border. Access to the village is by the D430 from Trémoulet in the north, by the D30 from Saint-Amadou in the south, and by the D6 from Lapenne in the east. The D30 continues past the village north-west to Montaut. The commune is almost entirely farmland with a few small patches of forest.^[5][6]

The Hers river forms the whole eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Ariege near Cintegabelle. The Estaut stream forms the whole western border of the commune as it flows north to join the Hers north-west of Belpech.^[5][6]

La Bastide-de-Lordat appears as la Baftide Garderenoud on the 1750 Cassini Map^[7] and as la Bastide on the 1790 version.^[8]

Blazon: Or, a chevron fracted Sable.

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List of Successive Mayors^[9]

In 2017 the commune had 286 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 348 —     1800 300 −2.10% 1806 364 +3.28% 1821 388 +0.43% 1831 400 +0.31% 1836 419 +0.93% 1841 446 +1.26% 1846 458 +0.53% 1851 458 +0.00% 1856 489 +1.32% 1861 466 −0.96% 1866 459 −0.30% 1872 451 −0.29% 1876 425 −1.47% 1881 411 −0.67% 1886 373 −1.92% 1891 368 −0.27% 1896 386 +0.96%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 356 −1.61% 1906 334 −1.27% 1911 319 −0.91% 1921 258 −2.10% 1926 249 −0.71% 1931 254 +0.40% 1936 227 −2.22% 1946 237 +0.43% 1954 235 −0.11% 1962 241 +0.32% 1968 211 −2.19% 1975 182 −2.09% 1982 145 −3.19% 1990 153 +0.67% 1999 213 +3.74% 2007 255 +2.28% 2012 271 +1.22% 2017 286 +1.08%
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Source: EHESS[10] and INSEE[11]

The commune has a very large number of items that are registered as historical objects - mostly in the Church of Saint Etienne but with other objects in the Town Hall and the Cemetery.^[12]

The War Memorial (1927) is registered as an historical monument.^[13]

The commune has several religious buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Cemetery (19th century)^[14]
• The Delquié Family Funeral Chapel (19th century)^[15]
• The Astre Family Funeral Chapel (19th century)^[16]
• The Castel-Maury Family Tomb (19th century)^[17]
• The Parish Church of Saint-Etienne (1875)^[18]

• Communes of the Ariège department

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