The two flails come from the coat of arms borne by the Lords of Königsfeld, ministeriales from Bamberg in the service of the Counts of Truhendingen.

The Carolingians had built a royal court at the source of the river Aufseß whose fortifications served to safeguard the road network in a border region with the Frankish Empire.

The imperial forest of Hauptsmoorwald's peak extent reached Königsfeld's outlying rural area as late as the 16th century, before it began to be chopped for the growing wood and lumber trade, to counter Sweden's timber monopoly in Europe.

Iron ore was mined and smelted around Königsfeld since prehistoric times and likely had economic importance for the royal court.

Today, exploratory diggings, slagheaps and field names, such as Arzberg (which would be rendered Erzberg in Modern High German – “Ore Mountain”) still recall these times.

In 1008, Emperor Heinrich II donated this royal estate (“his property with all that belongs thereto”) to the Bishopric of Bamberg.

After 1945, refugees driven from the formerly German lands east of the Oder and Neiße raised the population somewhat, but since the community's agriculture-based economy afforded few a livelihood, many left again to seek work in towns.

However, in the last days of the Second World War, Königsfeld lay for several hours under fire from United States soldiers.

The parish church lies in the middle of the fortified graveyard, whose western gate and part of whose wall go back to Romanesque times.

The coat of arms on the church's outer wall belonged to the Bishop of Bamberg, Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg.

The ceiling paintings finished in 1923 show Jacob's appointment by Christ and in the middle the apostle on a white horse who came to help the Christian side in the Battle of Ávila.

A round quire arch joins the nave with the tower's ground floor, which forms with the adjoining apse the choir.

To the left beside her stands the Saint Empress Kunigunde with a church model in her hand, referring to her position as cofounder of the Bishopric of Bamberg.

Ottilie regained her eyesight after baptism and is said to be the patron protectress of the blind, to which the book with the pair of eyes alludes.

Above the retable with the dove, the symbol for the Holy Ghost, stands the figure of Saint Sebastian with arrows stuck through him.