Karlstadt

Karlstadt on the Main belonged to the prince-bishopric of Würzburg, with vineyards already recorded in the thirteenth century. The town's political and religious life was shaken by the Peasants' War in 1525. Karlsburg was destroyed, and a punitive tribunal against rebels followed in the market square.

A later religious foundation drew support from the townspeople. The Capuchin monastery's foundation stone was laid in 1670 on land supplied by the municipality; its convent building was completed in 1671 and its church consecrated in 1674. The friars preached and heard confessions in the town and surrounding villages. Secularisation closed the monastery in 1804, and the emptied church became a salt store. Citizens successfully requested its restoration in 1808 during the Grand Duchy of Würzburg. It survived the territory's return to Bavaria, and the union of the order's Bavarian and Franconian provinces secured the Karlstadt community in 1836.