HAGUENAU, a town of France, and capital of an arron dissement in the department of Bas-Rhin, in the middle of the Haguenau Forest, on the Moder, and on the railway from Strass burg to Weissenburg, 1 o m. N.N.E. of the former city. Pop. (1930 14,573. Haguenau owes its origin to the erection of a hunting lodge by the dukes of Swabia (12th cent.) . The emperor Frederick I. surrounded it with walls and gave it town rights in 1154. On the site of the hunting lodge he founded an imperial palace, in which were preserved the jewelled imperial crown, sceptre, imperial globe, and sword of Charlemagne. Subsequently it became the seat of the Landvogt of Haguenau, the imperial advocatus in Lower Alsace. Richard of Cornwall, king of the Romans, made it an imperial city in I257. In 1648 it came into the possession of France, and in 1673 Louis XIV. razed the fortifica tions. In 1675 it was captured by imperial troops, but in 1677 it was retaken by the French and nearly all destroyed by fire. From 1871-1918 it belonged to Germany and in 1918 it became French once more. It has two ancient churches, that of St. George built by Emperor Conrad in I137, and one built in the 13th century. The principal industries are wool and cotton spinning, and the manufacture of porcelain, earthenware, boots, soap, casks, spark ling wines and beer. There is also considerable trade in hops, vegetables and cattle. Haguenau is the seat of a subprefect.