Mourenx

Mourenx
Main route entering Mourenx
Mourenx
Location within Aquitaine region  Mourenx
Coordinates: 43°22′46″N 0°36′25″W / 43.3794°N 0.6069°WCoordinates: 43°22′46″N 0°36′25″W / 43.3794°N 0.6069°W
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Lagor
Intercommunality	Lacq
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	David Habib
Area^1	6 km^2 (2 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	7,735
• Density	1,300/km^2 (3,300/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	64410 / 64150
Elevation	95–182 m (312–597 ft) (avg. 105 m or 344 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.

Mourenx is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department^[1] in south-western France.

History

A settlement of Mourengs existed in the eleventh century. A secular abbey existed, belonging to the Viscount of Béarn. In 1385 the village had 27 hearths.^[2]

Natural gas deposits were discovered in nearby Lacq in 1951. A new town was constructed in 1958 to provide accommodation for the workers required at the gas processing plant.^[3] The town was designed by architects and urbanists Coulon, Douillet and Maneval. It consisted of three groups of collective housing, three groups of family housing, all around a central area of support facilities.^[3]

The well-known French sociologist Henri Lefebvre carried out a study of Mourenx and its inhabitants at the time of its creation.^[3]

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

References

1. INSEE - file of the commune of Mourenx
2. Raymond, Paul (1858). Dictionnaire topographique du Département des Basse-Pyrénées, Issue 6, Volume 19. Paris. p. 119.
3. Stanek, Lucasz (2011). Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 106–116. ISBN 978-0-8166-6617-1.