- Geographic location :
- The town of Teich is located south of the Arcachon basin. This is the most common east of the COBAS: Urban Community of Arcachon Bay South. It is also at the heart of PNRLG: Regional Natural Park of Landes de Gascogne.
- With an area of 8700 hectares, of which 80% is forest, one can wonder whether "the city chosen by nature."
- History:
- This is the present territory of the commune of Teich and Biganos, on the banks of the Eyre, that the first inhabitants settled in the Arcachon basin, Bituriges Vivisques few centuries BC.
- Then in the first century, with the arrival of the Romans, a Gallo-Roman city (called Boïos) and a port were founded, as evidenced by the archaeological remains on the site Lamothe. The latest excavations have uncovered the foundations of buildings of the Gallo-Roman and Merovingian, one fanum, a chapel, a warehouse and a bridge.
- In medieval times, to protect themselves from invasions by sea, a few wooden observation towers on clods of earth were erected around the Arcachon basin, there remain two in the delta. One of them stood at the current location of the castle Ruat. It is precisely around this original building that was built the castle gradually developed and transformed from late medieval times to the eighteenth century to become the home of Captaux Buch. Paradoxically, because of the overlapping of several separate territories, the parish of Teich was not then part of captalcy Buch. His first approximation does indeed intervened late enough (in 1735), at the initiative of Jean-Baptiste Captal Amanieu of Ruat.
- Since 1713, the captalcy Buch was the property of Amanieu of Ruat, advisors to the parliament of Bordeaux, lords of Audenge and very attached to this manor where the roots of the family were sinking for centuries. They preferred their castle Teich than the Teste, old and uncomfortable. Jean-Baptiste Amanieu of Ruat (1676-1739), Captal de Buch, had many lands including the barony of Audenge and the noble house of Ruscade (isolated in the lordship of course) and the stronghold of Tagon (in the parish of Biganos). To complicate matters, the house of Ruat, which usually resided Captal de Buch, was in the parish of Teich, which depended on the lordship of course, possession of the Marquis de Civrac. To end the disadvantages that resulted from the intermingling of their lands, Jean-Baptiste Amanieu of Ruat, Captal de Buch, Baron of Audenge and advise the Parliament of Bordeaux, and Sir Emery Durfort, knight, and Marquis de Civrac Lord of course, got on to an exchange of land. The act was passed 30 December 1735. Jean-Baptiste Amanieu of Ruat yielded and the Marquis de Civrac: the barony of Audenge, the lordship of Ruscade in Admittedly, the stronghold of Tagon in the parish of Biganos, all that it possessed in the parish of Lamothe up the Leyre river side of the church, the mill on the creek of Ponnau Arnère parish Biganos, however, he kept the farms of Caudos and Balanos in the parish Mios and everything he owned the place called "the Escarret" in the parish of Lamothe and wood Groslin located in the middle of the moor in the parish of Lamothe, fief dependent on the noble house of Ruat. In exchange, the Marquis de Civrac yielded to Jean-Baptiste Amanieu of Ruat: the parish of Teich, the francaze Camps, moors he possessed in the parish of Sanguinet. Jean-Baptiste Amanieu of ruat lost the title of Baron of Audenge, but his land between the parishes of Lamothe and Teich became one piece to the ocean. It is the result of a genuine process of consolidation amicably as Captal de Buch became lord of Teich. However, the parish meeting of Teich and captalcy Buch under one lord was reflected not by the actual integration of the Teich in captalcy. The parishioners of Teich did not obtain the right to use in the "mountains" of Teste, nor the freedom to go to graze in the town moor the three parishes of captalcy. There was, in Teich, only one user, "said the lord and his house Ruat only" (Transaction of May 5, 1746).
