 During the second half of the 13th Century, Rudolph I of Germany, later King of the Romans, built the powerful Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg.This fortress probably involved the displacement of the primitive village.In 1431, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, established in Ensisheim the seat of the Austrian Regency and made the city the capital of his possessions in High Alsace, Country of Bade and north of Switzerland.