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[[Datei:JohannesEckartV.png|150px|thumb|right|Johannes Eckart]]Johannes Eckart was the most important family member of the 18<sup>th</sup> century. He left his hometown Langenzenn and migrated to the neighboring town of [[Emskirchen/en|Emskirchen]] in order to train as a brewer. Around 1749, he worked as a journeyman in the [[Gastwirte und Posthalter - Der Gasthof „Goldener Hirsch“ und die Familie Eckart/en|inn "Goldener Hirsch" (Golden Deer)]] and this is where he learned the brewing craft from Friedrich Kurr, the innkeeper and master brewer. Following the innkeeper’s death, Johannes Eckart purchased the inn "Goldener Hirsch" (Golden Deer), that can still be visited in Emskirchen to this day, for the price of 2,288 guilders on November 29, 1753.<ref>Eckart Family Archive, J I 102, Interest calculation for the estate "Goldener Hirsch" (Golden Deer), November 29, 1753.</ref> Two years later, in October 1755, he married the wealthy widow Barbara Dorothea Scheller (*April 25, 1723, in Schauerberger Mühle; †January 5, 1775, in Emskirchen)<ref>Eckart Family Archive, J I 501, data on birth, marriage and death see inscription of the tomb for Barbara Dorothea Scheller in the Emskirchen graveyard.</ref>; the couple had seven children, none of whom had descendants.<ref>Eckart, Werner: "Chronik der Familie Eckart" (Chronicle of the Eckart Family), 1967, page 39.</ref> In 1757, Johannes Eckart took over Emskirchen’s [[Die Posthalterei der Familie Eckart/en|post house]] and was appointed Imperial Postmaster.<ref>Eckart Family Archive, Da Ve 052, Chronicle of the Eckart Family, part 1, Johannes Eckart, page 95.</ref> On February 1, 1758, he was sworn in on Prince Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn und Taxis and received a certificate containing all his rights and duties as Imperial Postmaster.<ref>Eckart Family Archive, J I 104, Certificate regarding Johannes Eckart’s swearing-in as postmaster on February 1, 1758.</ref> To this day, the stone coat of arms that refers to the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis is mounted above the inn’s entrance gate.
[[Datei:MariaChristinaEckart.png|150px|thumb|right|Maria Christina Eckart, née Traugott]]A year after his first wife had died, in January 1776, Johannes Eckart married Maria Christina Traugott (*March 27, 1752, in Untersontheim; †June 5, 1828, in Emskirchen).<ref> Eckart Family Archive, J I 109, Marriage register of Johannes Eckart and Maria Christina, née Traugott, of January 12, 1776.</ref> This marriage also produced seven children, four of whom had further descendants. Johannes Eckart was elected mayor by Emskirchen’s town council in 1777. When he died in April 1790, his wife Maria Christina took over the post house and became Imperial Postmaster, until she married Johann Friedrich Christoph Lindner.