Ensisheim

Ensisheim lies on the Alsatian plain, in lands long held by the Habsburgs. In 1523 it became the capital of the landgraviate of Upper Alsace under Archduke Ferdinand. Three decades earlier, on 7 November 1492, a stone fell from the sky into a nearby field. King Maximilian, passing through on campaign against France, ordered the remarkable meteorite to be chained and preserved in the parish church.