The Eckartshäuser Church is a branch of the parish of Schleerieth and is extremely interesting from an art-historical point of view. The Julius Tower (after Prince Bishop Julius Echter), the choir, the buttresses and the pointed arched portals are particularly striking in the Gothic building. The year 1467 can be assumed to be the start of construction. This year can be found on a buttress in the chancel of the church. The choir must have been completed in 1468, since a "Perpetual Mass" has been documented from that year onwards. The nave was built between 1495 and 1500. According to inscriptions, the tower was built around 1525. The original interior was clearly Gothic in style, made largely of local sandstone. The four former altars no longer exist. Already in 1576 these were in bad condition, as has been handed down in writing. Since 1756 the interior got a new face. The altars that are still in front today, as well as the organ, can be assigned to the Baroque period. The high altar with its canopy dates from 1760. The altarpiece depicts the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In the center of the altar of grace on the right-hand side is a vespers group (see right). The portrait, created around 1450, is the actual destination of the pilgrimage to Eckartshausen, which is one of 130 places of pilgrimage, mercy destinations and places of worship in the Diocese of Würzburg. The "Lower Franconian Way of St. James" - revived in 2000 - also leads through the village.

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