Along the half-timbered house street: village route Eckartsberg

Based on the parcel size and boundaries, it is assumed that the village existed before the eastward colonization. Eckardistorph was first mentioned in writing in 1310. At that time, the St. Marienthal monastery owned several farms, the others belonged to Heinrich von Leipa. The village was probably named after a locator named Eckhard. With the rise of the city of Zittau, several farms were gradually acquired by wealthy Zittau citizens. At the beginning of the 16th century, the council of Zittau also took over the Marienthal share; thus the entire village belonged to it. With a short interruption due to the Upper Lusatian Pönfall, Eckartsberg remained one of the Zittau council villages, but the St. Marienthal monastery still conducted a lawsuit with the city over property claims in Eckartsberg in 1618. The Schleekretscham, located in the Eckartsbach gorge in the northwest part of the village, has been documented since 1560 in connection with a "Schleerichter am Berge"; nearby, an unsuccessful ore mining attempt took place in the second half of the 16th century. From the tunnel, the "Kuxloch," a wooden water conduit has led since 1599 to the Eckartsberg manor and from there to Zittau. The council of Zittau had the Eckartsberg water conduit renewed in 1682 and 1722 and expanded with new water facilities at the Hasenberg farms. In 1676, the Schleemühle was built at the Schleekretscham.

Since the 18th century, Zittau citizens built summer houses on the slope towards the Eckartsbach; this trend continued until the mid-19th century, after which they preferred the Zittau Mountains. Unlike most other Zittau council villages, only a few weavers settled in Eckartsberg during the 18th century. Residents of the village were mainly farmers, craftsmen, and day laborers. The Schleekretscham developed at the turn from the 18th to the 19th century into a well-known social venue beyond the local borders. The old Zittau-Herrnhut road leading through the Eckartsbach gorge at Schleekretscham was expanded between 1826 and 1827 to a high military and country road, along which the houses known as "Vierhäuser" were established. Brown coal extraction began in the Eckartsbach floodplain at the foot of the Hasenberg in 1843. Brown coal mining was expanded in the second half of the 19th century; in addition to the "Braunkohlenwerk zum Schlösschen" and the "Gerlach'sches Braunkohlenwerk," other mines were established on the adjacent Zittau Hasenberg fields, where Zittau citizens and craftsmen mined coal in mostly small shaft systems, disregarding safety. Several fatal accidents occurred in the "Braunkohlenwerk zum Schlösschen" in the 1860s. A quarry was established behind the Schleekretscham in the mid-19th century, where basalt balls were extracted and processed into ballast for road and railway construction. In close proximity to the quarry, the paper tube factory of Alfred Hübner GmbH was established in 1911 on the Zittau-Löbau road; no further industrial settlements followed. Eckartsberg was always assigned to the parish of Zittau.

The basalt plant was closed in the second half of the 20th century. The paper mill located between the entrances to the basalt works and the Schleekretscham formed the production area for paper tubes of the VEB paper processing plant Zittau during the GDR period. The Eckartsberg farmers were collectivized into the LPG "Aufstieg" in 1953, which managed 285 ha. In 1960, the Oberhasenberg estate merged with the two Zittau Hasenberg farms into the "GPG Hasenberg," which cultivated field vegetables on 45 ha north of Zittau extending to Weinau. Radgendorf was incorporated in 1965. After the political change, the industrial area "Zittau Nord/Ost" was created at the southeastern end of Eckartsberg in the 1990s, which covers about 20% of the Eckartsberg district with 110 ha. Since the privatisation in 1991, the paper tube factory operates as Eckartsberger Papierverarbeitung GmbH. On March 1, 1994, Mittelherwigsdorf, Oberseifersdorf, and Eckartsberg merged into a large municipality Mittelherwigsdorf. Since 2000, the Zittau northern bypass of federal highway 178 runs north of the village.