Burgwindheim is a municipality with market rights in the west of the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and a member of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Ebrach.

In 1278, the knight Ludewig von Windeheim bequeathed his estate to the Cistercian Monastery at Ebrach.

Direct Imperial authority over the Monastery at Ebrach was only recognized once Secularization had taken place, meaning that its property, unlike the Würzburg High Monastery’s belongings, never passed temporarily to the Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany, but remained with Bavaria.

The community council is made up of 12 members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each holds, since the 2020 local elections:[3] In 1999, municipal tax revenue, converted to euros, amounted to €616,000 of which business taxes (net) amounted to €157,000.

Burgwindheim’s arms might heraldically be described thus: Argent a greyhound salient sable crowned Or with a collar of the same.

According to official statistics, there were 616 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses in 1998, and in trade and transport none.