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Le château en bref
The Imperial Palace of Haguenau (Kaiserpfalz), now entirely vanished, was one of the most important imperial residences of the Holy Roman Empire. According to legend, Frederick II the One-Eyed, Duke of Swabia, had a hunting lodge built there in 1079 after discovering a protected island on the Moder; other hypotheses suggest construction by the Counts of Eguisheim around 1027, without documentary evidence. Emperor Frederick Barbarossa undertook its complete reconstruction between 1152 and 1190, making it an imperial residence with a multi-level chapel communicating with his apartments, a treasury, a church and a crypt. In 1273, Rudolf I of Habsburg made Haguenau the capital of the Imperial Grand Bailiwick of Alsace. Razed on the orders of Louis XIV in 1677 through successive fires, then systematically demolished under the direction of Vauban in 1687, its stones were reused to build Fort-Louis.