Entlang der Umgebindehausstraße: Dorfrunde Eckartsberg

Based on the size and boundaries of the land, it is assumed that the village already existed before the eastern colonization. Eckardistorph was first mentioned in writing in 1310, when the monastery of St. Marienthal owned several farms, the others belonged to Heinrich von Leipa. The village was probably named after a locator called Eckhard. As the town of Zittau grew stronger, several farms were successively acquired by wealthy Zittau citizens. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Zittau council also acquired the Marienthal portion, which meant that it owned the entire village. With a brief interruption following the Upper Lusatian Pönfall, Eckartsberg remained one of Zittau's council villages, although the monastery of St. Marienthal was still involved in a legal dispute with the town over ownership claims in Eckartsberg in 1618. The Schleekretscham, located in the Eckartsbach gorge in the north-western part of the village, has been documented since 1560 in connection with a "Schleerichter am Berge"; not far from here, an unsuccessful ore mining attempt was made in the second half of the 16th century. From the tunnel, the "Kuxloch", a water pipe led to the Eckartsberger Schlössel and from there to Zittau from 1599. The Zittau council had the Eckartsberg water pipe renewed in 1682 and 1722 and extended with new water catchment systems at the Hasenberg estates. In 1676, the Schleemühle mill was built at Schleekretscham.
From the 18th century onwards, Zittau citizens built summer houses on the slopes of the Eckartsbach stream; this trend continued until the middle of the 19th century, after which they preferred the Zittau mountains. In contrast to most other Zittau council villages, only a few weavers settled in Eckartsberg in the 18th century. The inhabitants of the village were mainly farmers, craftsmen and day laborers. At the transition from the 18th to the 19th century, Schleekretscham developed into a social center known beyond the village boundaries. Between 1826 and 1827, the old Zittau-Herrnhut road running along the Schleekretscham through the Eckartsbach gorge was upgraded to a high military and country road, along which the houses known as "Vierhäuser" were built. Lignite mining began in the Eckartsbach floodplain at the foot of the Hasenberg in 1843. In the second half of the 19th century, coal mining was expanded and, in addition to the "Braunkohlenwerk zum Schlößchen" and the "Gerlach'schen Braunkohlenwerk", further mines were built on the adjacent Zittau Hasenberg meadows, where Zittau citizens and craftsmen mined coal in mostly small shafts with disregard for safety. There were several fatal accidents in the 1860s, particularly at the "Braunkohlenwerk zum Schlößchen". A quarry was established behind the Schleekretscham in the middle of the 19th century, where spherical basalt was extracted and processed into gravel for road and railroad construction. The Alfred Hübner GmbH paper core factory was built in the immediate vicinity of the quarry on Zittau-Löbauer Chaussee in 1911, but no other industrial settlements were established. Eckartsberg was always a parish of Zittau.
The basalt plant was shut down in the second half of the 20th century. The paper mill located between the entrances to the basalt works and the Schleekretscham formed the paper core production area of VEB Papierverarbeitungswerk Zittau during the GDR era. The Eckartsberg farmers were collectivized in 1953 to form the LPG "Aufstieg", which farmed 285 hectares. In 1960, the Oberhasenberg estate was merged with the two Hasenberg estates in Zittau to form the "GPG Hasenberg", which cultivated field vegetables on 45 ha north of Zittau as far as Weinau. Radgendorf was incorporated in 1965. After the political change in the 1990s, the industrial area "Zittau Nord/Ost" was created at the south-eastern end of Eckartsberg, 110 ha of which is located approximately 20% within the Eckartsberg district. Since its privatization in 1991, the paper core factory has operated under the name Eckartsberger Papierverarbeitung GmbH. On March 1, 1994, Mittelherwigsdorf, Oberseifersdorf and Eckartsberg merged to form one large municipality of Mittelherwigsdorf. Since 2000, the Zittau northern bypass of federal highway 178 has run north of the village.