Haguenau Imperial City

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Haguenau dates back two centuries, when Duke Frederick II the One-Eyed of Swabia erected a hunting lodge on an island in the Moder River. The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa fortified the settlement and gave it town rights, important for further development, in on the site of the hunting lodge the Emperor founded an imperial palace he regarded as his favourite residence. In this palace were preserved the “Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire”, i.e. the jewelled imperial crown, sceptre, imperial orb, and sword of Charlemagne.

It was made it an imperial city a hundred years later. Subsequently, through the (House of Habsburg) Haguenau became the seat of German imperial advocate in Lower Alsace. It also houses the executive council of the Decapole, a defensive and offensive association of ten Alsatian towns against external aggression, economic expansion and related political instability.