Boucau

Boucau is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

Its inhabitants is called Boucalais.

Geography

Its name Occitan Gascon is Bocau , which means in this language the mouth. It is indeed at this place that the Adour throws in the Atlantic Ocean since 1578, date on which was diverted the old course downstream which because of stranding had derived until Capbreton and even Old man-Boucau where it formed a delta. From this Gascon name derive its names in Basque - Bokale - and French.

Hydrography

The Adour skirts Boucau before being thrown in the the Bay of Biscay with Tarnos (Landes) for Right Bank and Anglet (Yrénées-Atlantiques) for left bank. One of its affluents, the brook of the Esbouc mill, also sprinkles the grounds of the commune.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Tarnos (Moors) in north
Bayonne in south-east
Rebated joint in south-west.

Toponymy

The toponym Boucau appears in the forms Putta and Puncta (beginning XIIIe century, Overcoat, collection of the maritime laws), Punte (1255, files of Bayonne) and Boucau (1863, topographic dictionary Basque Béarn-Country).

History

It is into 1578 that the Adour, whose mouth is then more in north, with Old man-Boucau, is diverted to be thrown in a district of the town of Tarnos (Landes): Boucau.
Indeed, in 1562, the town of Bayonne, then declining, obtains Charles IX of France that one gives him an direct access with the ocean. It is Louis de Foix which makes realize perforated towards the ocean in which the river engulfs on October 25th, 1578.
The traffic of the port then makes live pilots guiding the ships and some Docker S.

Boucau belonged to the baronnie Seignanx. Seignanx is centered on the croups overhanging the old marshes of Orx, drained in 1864. It was initially consisted of the localities of Boucau, Tarnos, Ondres, Saint-Martin-with-Seignanx, and Saint-Andre-with-Seignanx.

In 1855, the layout of the rail link Bordeaux - Bayonne involves the creation of a station in this same district. Napoleon III, by decree of September 14th, 1857, decides creation of the commune of Boucau, by detaching 2 districts of Tarnos: the low district (Boucau) and the high district (Romatet).

The improvement of the maritime accesses, the railway service road, the proximity of Spain with its iron ore layers of Biscay will lead to the establishment of the factory of the Forges of Adour in 1881. The factory is specialized in the production of rails and accessories of the railways. This sudden industrialization will involve an economic and demographic expansion without precedents on the commune. " The épopée" forging mills is completed in 1965.

Administration

Intercommunality

Boucau belongs to the Basque Eurocité Bayonne - San Sebastian but does not belong to any intercommunality.
The common one recently pledged in the direction of its integration to the Communauté of agglomeration of Bayonne-Rebated joint-Biarritz. Its base of professional tax is indeed reduced and the city has very to gain mode of inter-commune single professional tax. By referendum near the inhabitants, this inter-commune integration was preferred in particular at the community of communes of Seignanx.

Boucau belongs to seven inter-commune structures:

mixed trade-union of studies for the development and the follow-up of the SCOT of the agglomeration of Bayonne and south of the Moors
arranges public local management
intercommunity association of Boucau-Tarnos
trade union for the support for the Basque culture
mixed trade-union of public transport of the agglomeration of Bayonne
trade union AEP of Boucau-Tarnos
departmental trade union of electrification.

Twinning

Demography

2005: provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

Its industry is summarized today with the Steel-works of the Atlantic (Spanish group Celsa since May 2007), created in 1995, specialized in the production of billets of acier.
Cements of Adour, subsidiary of the French Cements (group Italcementi), maintained a manufacturing plant of Ciment S with the site of the old Forging mills of Adour until 1993. Until this date, barge S transporting of limestone coming from the careers of Guiche and Arancou descended Adour (at variable hours, taking into account the influence of the tides on the head rooms under the bridges) to feed the factory. Since this date, the factory was transformed into center of crushing. It is from now on a center of cement bagging made in Spain by same the groupe.
As the remainder of the Basque Coast and Aquitanian, the commune saw tourism littoral.
The Company of transport of the agglomeration of Bayonne, also known under the initials Stab , is a joint grid system serving the 3 communes of the Communauté of agglomeration of Bayonne-Rebated joint-Biarritz ( Cabab ) as well as the communes of Arcangues, Boucau, Saint-Pierre-with Irube and Tarnos.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

Church Our-Lady-Auxiliatrice.

Environmental inheritance

the wood of Guilhou (19 hectares) is marked out various hiking trails.

Equipment

Clubs and sports equipment

the Boucau Tarnos stage is a club of Rugby to XV. He a long time played the first parts in the championship of France before undergoing the by-effects of the economic decline of the Eighties.

Teaching

The commune has of three elementary schools and a college (college Henri Barbusse).

Personalities related to the commune

Jean Castets, born on September 7th, 1900 in Boucau, is a player of Rugby to XV. He played in team of France and evolved/moved at the station of second line.
Jean-Baptiste Bédère, born on February 6th, 1902 in Boucau and deceased on June 1st, 1969, is a French player of Rugby to XV having occupied the station of second line in Boucau Tarnos stage, then with the Olympic Castres, and finally with the KNOWN Agen.
Laurent Bidart, born on January 11th, 1930 in Boucau, is a player of Rugby to XV, which played with the team of France and the Stade rochelais.
Robert Baulon, born on October 21st, 1930 in Boucau, is a French player of Rugby to XV, which played with the team of France, the CS Vienna, the Bayonne Aviron and the Mons Stade.

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