Eitensheim is located between Eichstätt and Ingolstadt, in Altmühl Valley Nature Park.

In a district of Eitensheim, called "Breitenstückl", the grave of a man was found in 1998 – a farmer and who had died 7000 years before.

[4] Eitensheim, lying at the Roman trade street, belonged in the 8th century to the founded bishopric of Eichstätt as a basic village together with Möckenlohe, Buxheim and Adelschlag.

[5] In 908 "Itensheim" had been first mentioned in the document of King Ludwig IV for the bishop of Eichstätt, called Erchanbald.

[7] In the year 1460 Eitensheim was plundered by Ludwig the Rich during his war against the Earl of Ansbach and the Bishop of Eichstätt.

[8] At the end of the Holy Roman Empire the village consisted of 101 estates, most of them rural.

After implementation of feeding, the number of animals had increased strongly in the princedom Eichstätt.

Therefore, the different farms had to pay separately, but there was also a church, a manse, an early mass house, a school and other kinds of buildings.

[10] In the new Kingdom Bavaria at 1806, there lived 546 persons, it had built an own assessment area and had been allocated to the provincial court Eichstätt since 1808/10.

This church spire was rebuilt and, because of the lean format with a copped ending, it is called the pen of God.