Ensisheim is located between Mulhouse and Colmar, the city bordering the A35 motorway. Ensisheim is located in a basin potash. Potash has been operating in the region until 2002. Ensisheim is part of the Community of Municipalities of the Central Upper Rhine and the Rhine Country Vineyards Grand Ball.
The name appears in 765 sub Ensisheim Enghisehaim and in 768 sub Engehisehaim, then become Ensigesheim in 825, these names were in the land donations. As for the origin of the name, "heim" meaning home or home-language-speaking and "Ensis" means sword, according to the lawyers of the Middle Ages, was a city Ensisheim or sword of justice.
Ensisheim was a small settlement consisting of a few courses colongère properties of secular or ecclesiastical lords whose tenants were a "ding", a court and managed their affairs according to their customs.
Rudolph of Habsburg best known, built a castle: the Koenigsbourg. You can still see remnants of foundation in the Park retirement home today.
The city becomes Ensisheim in 1431 the capital of Austria prior corporate entity dependencies of the Habsburgs to the west of the Arlberg.
7 November 1492, a meteorite fell in a cornfield near the village (Area Grants, currently). She sank to more than one meter underground. Once collected, the meteorite had a weight of about 127 kg. It was divided into pieces, including a 55 kg remained in the town, she is currently exhibited at the Museum of the Regency.
