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the field situation

the thirteenth century, when families of Baylenx and Poyanne assert their position in the feudal system is primarily political and military. Their strong house, then their castle will therefore its defense functions and display of political authority.

In the seventeenth century, when Poyanne directly serve the King in war and in the court of Versailles, the castle became the seat Poyanne an area (mostly wine) which produces enough revenue to Lifestyles of the Marquis in Paris and Versailles.
In 1745, before the Marquis de Poyanne marry the Marquise de Leuville, an estimate of property indicates that the Earth and the marquis of Poyanne gave 8000 pounds of annual income which must be added the income Sengresse, Gamarde, Onard, Mimbaste, Clermont, Garrey, Monfort, Nousse, Poyartin, Ordis, Castelnau, Geaune, Montagut, Bourdalat, and Maurrin Valier giving 24,700 pounds. To this, the 3000 books were grafted government's Dax and 5000 books of his regiment. ( in 1776, a cask of wine worth £ 29 at St Sever ).

Furniture, vaissellle money and other household effects of the castle and that of Poyanne Sengresse with cattle thereon, estimated at 80,000 pounds, and those furnishing the castle Dax 15 000 books in other lordships 22,000 books; horses, carriages and dishes of the Marquis 30 000 pounds.

the "longhouse"

The importance of field Poyanne can be measured by reading the property placed in leasing in 1782: 94 farms, 6 mills, 3 bowls on the Adour - 68 of the farms were partly planted with vines. At his death, notaries dénombrent 2253 barrels of wine, mostly white, between the castle, the Dax (a chai Sablar), the lordship of Castelmerle and Caverie of Sangresse. These wines are even exported until Brabant and Holland through the port of Bayonne. Only in the castle's outbuildings, the death of Leonard in 1781, there were 38 pieces of brandy, 484 barrels of white wine and 91 barrels of red wine.
Especially since the last mark has acquired land and Monguilhem Toujouse in Bas Armagnac (Gers).

But the field also produces cereals (attics are full of wheat, oats and millocq), and raises cattle ...

Among activities in the field Poyanne, one of them prefigure, with nearly two centuries ahead, the renewal of an activity typically Landes: hydrotherapy. The Poyanne owned and operated a bath house in Préchacq sludge.

is also the last Marquis, who introduced his land growing potatoes, even though the harvest was mainly used for fattening pigs. By 1773, therefore before the success of Parmentier, he ordered his bailiff to sow as much as possible "of potatoes and potato" and to engage tenants in this new culture.

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After the Revolution, in 1834, the estate has more than 26 farms spread over various common Chalosse for a total of 175 acres, 4 mills, a brickyard, a meadow in the wetlands of Adour, and 20 acres of woodland oak and chestnut trees. But the castle itself and its dependencies occupy more than 16 hectares.

The current domain represents only 4.7 hectares. But all is built at the far field of the eighteenth century, nearly 5000 square meters of floor divided as follows:

Castle (36 pieces): 2173 m2 of floor
Dependence: 540 m2 Floor
The "longhouse" (winery): 1600 m2 of floor
Remission: 550 m2 Floor

remains of the fountain and the laundry


slope toward the source of the castle and river

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