Barbazan, Haute-Garonne

Barbazan
Barbazan
Commune
	The town hall in Barbazan
	Coat of arms
	Location of Barbazan
	Barbazan Barbazan
	Coordinates: 43°02′00″N 0°37′26″E / 43.0333°N 0.6239°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Haute-Garonne
Arrondissement	Saint-Gaudens
Canton	Bagnères-de-Luchon
Intercommunality	Pyrénées Haut-Garonnaises
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michelle Stradere
Area 1	6.05 km2 (2.34 sq mi)
Population (2021)	503
• Density	83/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	31045 /31510
Elevation	439–890 m (1,440–2,920 ft) ; (avg. 450 m or 1,480 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Barbazan (French pronunciation: [baʁbazɑ̃]; Occitan: Barbasan) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.

Geography

Barbazan is a Spa town in the Comminges region located some 13 km south-west of Saint-Gaudens and 12 km north of Cierp-Gaud. The western border of the commune is also the departmental border between Haute-Garonne and Hautes-Pyrénées. Access to the commune is by Route nationale N125 which comes from the end of the A645 autoroute and passes down the western side of the commune south to Ore. The D26E road comes from Labroquère in the north-west and passes through the north of the commune ending in the village. The D26 comes from Valcabrère in the west and passes through the village continuing to Sauveterre-de-Comminges in the east. The D33D and the D33L go south from the village to join the N125. The commune has extensive forests in the east with some farmland in the west.^[3]

The Garonne river forms most of the western border of the commune as it flows north, passing through Toulouse, to eventually join the Dordogne to form the Gironde estuary at Bordeaux. Lake Barbazan, north-west of the village at 452 m above sea level, is of glacial origin. It is surrounded by moraine deposits: sub-glacial moraine from Cumania and rocky outcrops of moraine west of the Lake. The Ruisseau de Corp flows west from the lake to join the Garonne.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Heraldry

Arms of Barbazan	Blazon: Vert, 3 jets of water Argent issuant from a fountain with antique base of Or on a wave Argent mouvant from base; in chief parti per pale: at 1 Gules with 4 otelles Argent addorsed saltrirewise, at 2 Azure with a cross of Or.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1937

From	To	Name
1792	1800	Mathieu Monserbe
1800	1809	Joseph Dulac
1809	1815	Bertrand Monserie
1815	1818	Pierre Lapeyrade
1818	1822	Jean-Jacques Marie d'Astorg
1822	1828	Nicolas Bourbon
1828	1832	Jean-Marie Bon
1832	1840	Jean Dulac
1840	1843	Jean Pujole
1843	1847	Jean-Mathieu Descaillaux
1847	1848	Jean Mondon
1848	1852	Gilles Mondon
1852	1871	Jean-Louis Gilles Mondon
1871	1890	Théophile Dulac
1890	1924	Romain Dombernard
1924	1937	Mathieu Allemane

Mayors from 1937

From	To	Name
1937	1944	Baptiste Foucadet
1944	1947	André Casteix
1947	1947	Bertrand Fourcade
1947	1957	Pierre Pujole
1957	1960	Jacques Vollant
1960	1972	Paul Bertrand
1972	1977	Henri Fontagneres
1977	1985	Georges Guichard
1985	1989	Jean Serny
1989	2014	Henri Galy
2014	2026	Michelle Stradere

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barbazanais or Barbazanaises in French.^[5]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	425	—
1800	416	−0.31%
1806	450	+1.32%
1821	485	+0.50%
1831	520	+0.70%
1836	540	+0.76%
1841	535	−0.19%
1846	555	+0.74%
1851	547	−0.29%
1856	548	+0.04%
1861	547	−0.04%
1866	513	−1.28%
1872	516	+0.10%
1876	484	−1.59%
1881	459	−1.06%
1886	430	−1.30%
1891	456	+1.18%
1896	471	+0.65%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	431	−1.76%
1906	453	+1.00%
1911	427	−1.18%
1921	385	−1.03%
1926	381	−0.21%
1931	392	+0.57%
1936	421	+1.44%
1946	371	−1.26%
1954	438	+2.10%
1962	525	+2.29%
1968	516	−0.29%
1975	406	−3.37%
1982	386	−0.72%
1990	351	−1.18%
1999	378	+0.83%
2009	449	+1.74%
2014	441	−0.36%
2020	498	+2.05%