 Heidegger (they have a tavern right in Embrach) and Bochsler were Embrach nobleman in the 14th century.In the War of Sempach (Sempacherkrieg) (1386) and later in the Old Zurich War (1444) the troops of the Eidgenossen plundered, destroyed the church and the convent.After this war the governmental power over Embrach chances from the House of Habsburg to the state of Zurich.