During the era of the tribal duchies, Emskirchen was in the Duchy of Franconia. The former Königshube had already separated from the Königshof Riedfeld before 800.[5] The place was first mentioned in 1132/47 as "Empichiskirchen". The determinant of the place name is the personal name Empichi, who was the founder of a church built there. Ekehardus de Ritfelt testifies that it was mentioned in a document in 1156 as "Enspenkirch(en)" when Bishop Gebhardt of Würzburg transferred the goods of the parish of Emskirchen to the monastery of Münchaurach. It was first called "Emskirchen" in 1158.[6][7] In the 13th century a certain Hartung was the bailiff of the church in Emskirchen. Hartung, who worked under the vicedominate of Gutend von Seckendorff as advocate-vogt in Riedfeld and Neustadt an der Aisch, gave the church his tithe in Mettelaurach in 1300.[8]
When the Pope's special envoy (legatus a latere), the cardinal deacon John of San Angelo, was in Neustadt ("in Nova Civitate Herbipolensis dioeceseos"), he issued a letter of indulgence for the church of Emskirchen on November 2 or 3, 1448. [9]
Friedrich Wildner, who accepted the new church order in 1529, was probably Emskirchen's first evangelical pastor.[10]
Emskirchen benefited from its location on the Nuremberg–Frankfurt trade route. In 1623 a post office was built in Emskirchen on the Nuremberg–Frankfurt mail coach connection. After the Thirty Years' War, in which Emskirchen was subjected to severe looting, particularly on December 1 and 2, 1631,[11] around 160 Protestant expellees from Austria settled in the depopulated town, and they made a significant contribution to the reconstruction in their new home. [12] Later, Emskirchen also became the settlement of many Huguenots, who built today's cemetery church.
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