Kirche, Catholic parish church in Effeltrich, Germany

St. Georg is the parish church inside the fortified churchyard of Effeltrich, listed as monument D-4-74-122-22. Its core is a choir-tower church from around 1300; the nave was lengthened and raised in 1405, when the tower was built, and in 1497 the present choir was added and the nave raised again. The churchyard wall, begun in the 1460s, runs from the east side over the north to the west, where the west tower dated 1473 stands.

The fortified churchyard was begun in the 1460s around a chapel built around 1300, after Effeltrich was plundered three times during the Hussite wars (1430) and the First Margrave War (1449, 1450). Dendrochronology shows work started on the east side and moved north and west; the west tower dates to 1473. In the Second Margrave War of 1552 the south wall was razed and rebuilt with a square corner tower.

The parish is dedicated to Saint George, whose feast day is 23 April. Since 2019 it has belonged to the Seelsorgebereich Neubau based in Neunkirchen am Brand, after sharing a pastoral area with Langensendelbach and Poxdorf from 2009 to 2019. The parish also includes the filial church of St. Vitus in Gaiganz.

The church stands inside the ring of the Kirchenburg, entered through the gate tower whose lower part dates to 1303. The five towers and the 1.3-metre-thick walls can be viewed from the churchyard; the covered walkway survives only along the gate building. The site is a listed monument (D-4-74-122-22) in the village centre.

The churchyard walls show how the fortification was built in stages: T- and L-shaped arrow slits for crossbows on the east and north sides, keyhole slits for handguns at the southwest tower. The west tower, dated 1473, is the youngest surviving part, while the gate tower's lower section rests on a gate structure dated 1303.