# Aussevielle

Aussevielle (French pronunciation:; Occitan: Aussavièla) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

## Geography

Aussevielle is located some 14 km north-west of Pau and 6 km north-west of Lescar. Access to the commune is by the D633 road from Beyrie-en-Béarn in the north-east which passes through most of the length of the commune and the village before it continues south to join the D817 near Siros. The D817 from Denguin passes through the south of the commune. European route E80 passes through the north of the commune but provides no access to the commune with the nearest exit being exit 9.1 to the east. Residential areas cover some 20% of the area with the rest farmland.
The Gave de Malapet flows through the north of the commune towards the north-west. The Ousse des Bois flows through the south of the commune westwards to join the Gave de Pau south-west of the commune.

### Places and Hamlets

* Cabarrouy
* Lous Campagnots
* Labourdette
* Lacoustette
* Lombré
* Poey (glasshouse)
* Sensac
* Teulé
* Lous Vignaux

### Neighbouring communes and villages

vtePlaces adjacent to Aussevielle :
Beyrie-en-Béarn
Denguin
Aussevielle
Siros
Poey-de-Lescar :

## Toponymy

The commune name in béarnais is Aussavièla. Michel Grosclaude indicated that the name probably comes from the name of the Ousse which rises in the commune with the Occitan vièla ("town") giving "Town of Ousse".
The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.
| Name | Spelling | Date | Source | Page | Origin | Description |
| Aussevielle | Ause-Vielle | 1342 | Raymond | 17 | Pardies | Village |
| | Ossebiele | 1349 | Raymond | 17 | Pardies | |
| | Aucevielle | 1385 | Raymond | 17 | Census | |
| | Osse-Bielle | 1402 | Raymond | 17 | Census | |
| | Aussabiela | 1538 | Raymond | 17 | Reformation | |
| | Aussavielle | 1675 | Raymond | 17 | Reformation | |
| | Saint-Jean d'Aussevielle | 1754 | Raymond | 17 | Denguin | |
| | Aussaviele | 1750 | Cassini | | | |
| Casenave | Casenave | 1753 | Raymond | 43 | Enumeration | Farm and Fief, Vassal of the Viscounts of Béarn |
| Domec | L'ostau deu Domec | 1538 | Raymond | 55 | Reformation | Fief, Vassal of the Viscounts of Béarn |
Sources:
* Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)
* Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (in French)
* Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750
Origins:
* Pardies: Notaries of Pardies
* Census: Census of Béarn
* Reformation: Reformation of Béarn
* Denguin: Terrier of Denguin
* Enumeration: Enumeration of Ausseville

## History

Paul Raymond noted on page 17 of his 1863 dictionary that in 1385 Aussevielle had 10 fires and depended on the bailiwick of Pau then in 1654 reverted to the Barony of Denguin by letters patent from Louis XIV.

## Administration

List of Successive Mayors
| From | To | Name |
| 1813 | 1831 | Jean Pierre Laborde Teule-Sensacq |
| 1831 | 1835 | Jean Campagnolle |
| 1835 | 1839 | Jean Laulhere |
| 1839 | 1840 | Jean Campagnolle |
| 1840 | 1842 | Jean Laulhere |
| 1842 | 1860 | Joseph Marie Teule-Sensacq |
| 1860 | 1870 | Jean Tercq |
| 1870 | 1881 | Michel Firmin Teule-Sensacq |
| 1881 | 1884 | Joseph Marie Firmin Teule-Sensacq |
| 1884 | 1900 | Michel Teule-Sensacq |
| 1900 | 1908 | Pierre Plasteig-Cassou |
| 1908 | 1912 | Joseph Teule-Sensacq |
| 1912 | 1925 | Pierre Plasteig-Cassou |
| 1925 | 1953 | Justin Coustille-Cossou |
| 1953 | 1970 | Aimé Coustille-Cossou |
| 1970 | 1983 | Lucien Labastie |
| 1983 | 1995 | Jean Michel Daury |
| 1995 | 2026 | Jacques Locatelli |

### Inter-communality

The commune is part of four inter-communal structures:
* the Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées;
* the SIVU for home help for the elderly of the Canton of Lescar;
* the AEP association of Lescar region;
* the Siros, Aussevielle, Poey-de-Lescar inter-communal association for water treatment in the Val de l'Ousse;

## Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Ausseviellois or Aussevielloises in French.
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 1793 | 180 | — |
| 1800 | 189 | +0.70% |
| 1821 | 219 | +0.70% |
| 1831 | 210 | −0.42% |
| 1836 | 208 | −0.19% |
| 1841 | 210 | +0.19% |
| 1846 | 198 | −1.17% |
| 1851 | 174 | −2.55% |
| 1856 | 172 | −0.23% |
| 1861 | 151 | −2.57% |
| 1866 | 146 | −0.67% |
| 1872 | 147 | +0.11% |
| 1876 | 134 | −2.29% |
| 1881 | 138 | +0.59% |
| 1886 | 131 | −1.04% |
| 1891 | 129 | −0.31% |
| 1896 | 110 | −3.14% |
| 1901 | 119 | +1.59% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 1906 | 109 | −1.74% |
| 1911 | 93 | −3.13% |
| 1921 | 94 | +0.11% |
| 1926 | 75 | −4.42% |
| 1931 | 87 | +3.01% |
| 1936 | 107 | +4.23% |
| 1946 | 78 | −3.11% |
| 1954 | 82 | +0.63% |
| 1962 | 99 | +2.38% |
| 1968 | 126 | +4.10% |
| 1975 | 185 | +5.64% |
| 1982 | 258 | +4.87% |
| 1990 | 406 | +5.83% |
| 1999 | 479 | +1.85% |
| 2007 | 686 | +4.59% |
| 2012 | 784 | +2.71% |
| 2017 | 785 | +0.03% |
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## Culture and heritage
### Civil heritage

The old Lay Abbey is today the Town Hall.

### Religious heritage

The Church of Saint John the Baptist probably dates to the end of the Middle Ages.

## Facilities
### Education

Siros and Aussevielle are associated through an Inter-communal Educational Regrouping (RPI). The commune has a nursery school. There is a primary school in Siros.

## Notable people linked to the commune

* Roger Lapassade, born in 1912 at Aussevielle and died in 1999 at Orthez, a writer and Occitan poet.