In Collection : 1.11 gram slice

In 1492, a meteorite fell in a field near the city of Ensisheim. Only a young boy saw the fall at a place called Les Octrois Laubourg, south of Ensisheim. When the inhabitants were informed of this event, everyone wanted to keep a fragment of it, considering this as a divine sign.. Twenty days later, King Maximilien of Austria, in conflict with the King of France Charles VIII, heard about the stone. He used thus supernatural phenomenon like a divine sign announcing a forthcoming victory of his armies and ordered that the meteorite was hung in the chorus of the church of Ensisheim. In 1794, it was transported to the Museum of Colmar and, in 1804, the town of Ensisheim recovered its trophy which weighed then no more that 55kg. Fifty years later, after the collapse of the bell-tower of the church, the meteorite was kept in the Palate of Regency. Nowadays, the block remaining, weighing 53.831kg, is protected by the "Brotherhood of Saint-Georges of the Guardians of the Meteorite of Ensisheim". It is about the first well documented fall ever observed.