Maria von der Tann Church

The church's origins date back to the 13th century, when the first pilgrimages to an image of Mary in the fir trees took place. By the 14th century, pilgrims from Franconia were already coming here. In the mid-15th century, the pilgrimage fell into oblivion but was revived in 1443 by Archpriest Eberhard von Grumbach. Between 1483 and 1485, he carried out a renovation of the chapel and commissioned a new image of grace in Würzburg, presumably from the circle of Tilman Riemenschneider. After the Reformation and the population's conversion to Lutheran doctrine in 1587, the church played a role in the Counter-Reformation. Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn and Vicar Andreas Bastmann re-Catholicized the surrounding areas.