[2][3] The Protestant Bergkirche was built in Gothic revival style, designed by Johannes Otzen who would write the Wiesbadener Programm.

[3] The Wiesbadener Programm was written by Otzen and Emil Veesenmeyer, minister of the Bergkirche, in 1891, aiming at an unobstructed view from every seat in the church to the combined location of altar, pulpit and organ.

He shortened the nave and made the transept octagonal, as the central focus for altar and pulpit close to the congregation.

The result is a protestantische Predigtkirche (Protestant sermon church) according to Martin Luther's concept of a priesthood of all believers.

[7][8] The church has a mixed choir, Kantorei der Bergkirche, conducted by Christian Pfeifer, which performs in services and in concerts such as in 2019 Arvo Pärt's Johannespassion with Klaus Uwe Ludwig as the organist,[9] and Handel's Messiah as part of the Wiesbadener Bachwochen festival.