The church was built between 1387 and 1454 on the site of an earlier church dedicated to
Mary Magdalene. This earlier church, which dated from 1182, was founded by the Knight Walther Spender and had been built on the site of a small Roman fort. The tower with its tapering spire was erected in 1585. The interior was remodelled during the 17th century. The façade and the
sacristy, which date from 1905, are by Émile Salomon, the architect of the
Temple Neuf in Strasbourg. While Schweitzer was pastor at the Church, on 11 April 1908 he celebrated the wedding of
Elly Knapp and
Theodor Heuss, who went on to become President of the Federal Republic of Germany. The interior contains remains of 15th-century frescoes. The 1707 organ of the brothers
Andreas and
Gottfried Silbermann was dismantled in 1967. ==References==