[2] The church was originally built by the Counts of Rechberg and Rothenlöwen.
[2] Legend states that pilgrimages started when a hermit brought a beautiful carved wooden image of the Virgin Mary to the mountain and built a wooden chapel as a shrine.
Count Ulrich II of Rechnberg had a stone church built on the site.
Count Bernhard Bero of Rechberg commissioned a Baroque church to accommodate the number of pilgrims.
[2] The church is under the authority of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.