Herm (Landes)

Herm is a French small town with 1057 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Landes department in the region of Aquitaine. The place is in Marensin, a coastal region of the country.

The inhabitants are called Hermois (it).

Geography

Herm is located in the Landes Forest, the largest contiguous forest area in Western Europe, mainly with pine plantings. The place is located in the center of the triangle (southeast ) are the places Magescq (southwest ), Castets (northeast ) and Dax.

Herm is touched on the western outskirts of the small but strong water stream leading Saunus, which rises in the district Sourdat and continues to flow after Magescq, where he drives a grain mill. From here, it bears the name Magescq.

On the motorway A63 (Bordeaux - Biarritz ) (AS Magescq ) the place is well connected transport. The nearest train station is can be reached in Dax, where in 4 hours Paris, the nearest airport is located in Biarritz. The town is crossed by four roads connecting it with Dax, Magescq, Castets and Gourbera.

History

About the origin of the town name is read, that he from the AltGr in a brochure of tourist information on the municipality. Word was derived Eremo, which means hermit. This suggests that it was originally a hermitage here to that developed the village.

Other sources use the name from the Latin word Heremus, which means stop or rest area. This opinion also joined a past president of the Borda society in his book on the country and its inhabitants.

The first written mention of the name appeared on January 16, 1407 in a deed of the church, between other fiefs, to a knight named Jean de Tiptost, treasurer of the palace of the king of England and Senechall of Lannes, by his wife Jeanne Philippa,

1428, after the death of the Curé of Herm, Jean de Mauvoisin, came the church and parish in the care of the Abbey of Divielle. Divielle today is a ruined monastery in the area of ​​southern France Goos community in the country, about 10 km east of Dax. From its last inhabitants, the Trappists, the abbey was abandoned in 1932. Nearby, the friars built a barn for the Abbey (French grange ), which gave its name to the still existing corridor designation Lagrange. Here in the southeast of the present-day market town so was the original church of Herm.

The map of the French cartographer Cassini, which was published in 1791 showed, parallel to the road of Castets to Dax (now D947 ) has a straight, dotted line. That could only be a former street from Gallo-Roman times. Indeed, it was a road be proven that connected the Roman coastal road in the area of mixes with Dax, with a branch that was created after the founding of the city. Old notarial records speak of a " Roman road " ( Old-French camin roumiou ), which led past Herm. The trail linkage is partly interesting because it leads through an area that carries the field names " Jacquelous ", which refers to the Camino de Santiago.

It was in the 18th century, two families that certain events in Herm and surroundings: The Hosseleyre family, first mentioned in the community around the middle of the 17th century with the royal notary Jean- Placide Hosseleyre and his son Pierre, the last lord in Herm was. And the family Desbiey from Dèze ( a tract of land in Magescq with a mill that belonged to the family and where they lived for a long time ), a descendant of Jean Desbiey, who had settled as Müller 1670 in Herm. His son Pierre, Smith married in 1719 the daughter of the notary Hosseleyre. His grandson Pierre, who lived from 1748 to 1821, became a notary and state tax lawyer of Magescq and Castets. His son François -Xavier, surgeon and registrar from Castets, settled in Magescq down and became mayor. A list of 29 November 1802, the six hundred largest taxpayers of the department leads on four names from Herm: Hosseleyre Pierre, Pierre and François -Xavier Desbiey and Jean Lacoste.

Special attention deserves the listing of the mayor of the town from 1793 to today:

The small castle of the Coyola family still stands at the " Rue Coyola ", which leads to Dax today. It was built by Louis Coyola, 1930-1950 President of the Chamber of Agriculture of the country. He was the brother of Antoine Coyola, the last mayor of the family. Louis Coyola became the first president of the USH (L' Union Sportif Hermoise - the sports club of Herm ).

On 13 and 14 June 1949 was a devastating forest fire, caused by a pickup truck, which was operated with a wood gas engine and drove on the road Castets- Dax. Influenced by favorable winds over 800 ha of pine forests were destroyed. A distillery in the superimposed 30,000 gallons of gasoline, was fortunately spared.

Culture and sights

• Images of the Church

Church Interior

Nave

Church window

• Center of the village and main attraction is the church at the intersection of main roads. It is of Roman origin and was rebuilt in 1863. In 1975 it was renovated.
• Rugby Stadium; here plays pachy d' Herm, a successful rugby club for women (Rugby à XV)
• The place also has a number of houses in the style of the country, which are also still richly decorated with flowers, which earned the town the distinction of having three flowers as one of the flower-bedecked villages in France ( villes et villages fleuri ).

Club Life

• L' Union Sportive Hermoise (L' USH - sports club Herm ). As in the entire south-western France playing rugby in Herm a major role in community life and is the main sport discipline at the club. Before 1920, only villages had a certain importance sports clubs. In Herm the rugby matches were sometimes the occasion organized by village festivals or holidays, but especially during Carnival. In 1921 the first club Cercle sportif hermois founded (friends of sport in Herm ). It was launched under the leadership of Ernest Baker Quillacq, but that was nothing official. The design of this young team accomplished in the following years Fernand Darreuyre from Mimbaste, a nearby village. He was married in Herm. During May 20, 1923, the official founding of the USH was, was held the first rugby match already on 8 April 1922. The jersey color of the players gave them the name Les Bleues ( the Blue ). Mayor Antoine Coyola donated a terrain on which the municipal stadium could be built.

• La Société Musicale Hermoise ( Musikverein Herm ). January 24, 1926, was founded in "Musical Society". The statutes stipulated " to make music together and to organize concerts ." 1952, the Articles of Association to the edition has been expanded to train music students. She was now a society of public education. A photo of these times shows a group of about 30 men, mostly older generation, flanked by a young woman and the priest. In the foreground, a considerable number of instruments for the classical village - march music with " Sound and Fury ".

Economy

• POLYPLAST, a former company for the manufacture of boats made ​​of polyester. The company was founded in 1963 as an offshoot of a boat factory in Bordeaux by Lucien Lanaverre, who had spent part of his childhood here. 1977, the factory was closed. The successors have gone bankrupt in 1983. Lanaverre boats are still marketed today.

Personalities

• Gérard Barthe (1913-1988), the last pastor of Herm, previously of Lüe (a small village between Mimizan and Labouheyre ). He died away in a nursing home in Buglose
• Louis Coyola
• Michel Noyer (1900-1975), teachers and school principals and deputy for many years mayor of Herm

• Bernard Coussau (1917-1998): son of a small grocer from Herm. After a prisoner of war, he opened a small restaurant in 1947 in Herm, but then moved to Magescq, where in 1955 he opened his next restaurant. Notoriety he achieved during his 20 year career with a party service. He earned a manor house and converted it into a hotel and luxurious restaurant. Opening of the Relais de la Poste was in 1972. Today the house is run by his son Jean Coussau. He is one of the Maîtres cuisiniers de France, Michelin-starred chef with two Michelin stars.