The town of Ort was first mentioned in a document in 1020 and the church dates back to 1192. The 30 Years' War did not leave Mariaort unscathed: the church was looted and completely robbed. In the decades after the war, pilgrimage experienced a strong boom. From 1774 to 1776, Pastor Benedikt Hopp expanded the church to its current size using his own resources. The nave was torn down from the original church, so that apart from the late Gothic basement of the tower, only the choir with a three-sided end remains. The ribbed vaults with the beautiful keystone “Mary with the child Jesus on the waves” from around 1500 have still been preserved. The four-bay nave, 22.30 m long and 11.90 m wide with 4 window bays, is adjoined by a deeper one, 13.70 m wider Choir with semicircular closure and two window bays. The current high altar, a work of early classicism with four marbled columns between which the two princes of the apostles Peter and Paul stand, was built in 1770. Above the tabernacle stands the much-venerated miraculous image: a heavy 1.28 m high stone figure, dating from after 1360 at the earliest with characteristic Gothic robe folds and a veil over his head. On her right arm, the Mother of God carries the seated baby Jesus, who is holding a frog or toad in both hands. In the excerpt, God the Father and the dove of St. spirit represented. There are two side altars on the side walls in the choir; they are early baroque works with thin columns and coat-of-arms cartouches (after 1650). On the right the altarpiece shows the birth of Christ, the left altarpiece shows the adoration of the child Jesus by St. three Kings. Two elegant late rococo altars, which are older and more picturesque than the high altar, were probably installed in the rounded eastern corners of the nave around 1774/76. On the right, behind a canopy-like cloth draping, stands St. Joseph with baby Jesus, at the left side altar of St. Sebastian, they are two vividly carved figures. The extracts are rich in shapes with hearts, angels and vases. Due to its size, Mariaort is one of the small pilgrimage churches in the Upper Palatinate. During its renovation in 1910, the Munich General Conservatory described the pilgrimage church as one of the most beautiful churches of the 18th century in the Regensburg area.