 Lauterbourg developed into a town, and the seat of a bailiwick incorporating 20 villages, in the 13th century.In the early 18th century, Lauter, as developed into a French fortification of the Lauter-line, defined as the border of France in the Congress of Vienna of 1815.On 13 August 13, 1793, a battle of the War of the First Coalition took place in the Bienwald.