Part of town Birkungen

897 Pagus Eichsfelden for the first time in a document called, areas of the Gleichensteiner offices Schrfenstein, Gleichenstein and Birkenstein formed.
1191 first documentary mentions of the place
In 1290 Rudolf von Bodenstein returns the tenth in Birkungen to the archbishop of Mainz
1516 1st church constructions
1562 Meier contracts about properties in the Wüstungen Heddigerode and Ubern Orssee with inhabitants of Niederorschel and Birkungen
In 1799 construction of the cross chapel
In 1864 foundation of the church choir (man's song association) "Cäcilia"
 

The legend of the cellar virgin:
One day furious farmers attacked the castle birch stone with Birkungen. All inhabitants of the castle could escape, up to a virgin who hid with few stocks in the cellar of the castle and waited, until the farmers had disappeared. When they were away, a storm gathered. When the storm was past, the cellar virgin tried to come with difficulty outward. When she had succeeded, finally, she had a scratched face and her hands bled. She ran in the village Birkungen to search the county family which it did not find, however. The virgin received only the news that the knight of birch stone has died with the battle against the farmers. It has never been told that the cellar virgin has died. On the contrary, also younger generations they still want to have seen and have recognised her by the carried along brushwood broom.