The church was built from 1930 to 1932 according to a design by Hans Heinrich Grotjahn[1] in the architectural style called "New Objectivity".

It is a building with a reinforced concrete structural system, with a single nave without interior piers.

Due to the site conditions, the usual orientation of the choir to the east was abandoned when the church was built.

The objective and functional form, the striking tower with vertical window strips and the cross-shaped window in the entrance area led from 1933 to attacks by National Socialist leaders on the church council because of allegedly degenerate art.

This criticism also referred to the liturgical furnishings by the artists Max Alfred Brumme, Odo Tattenpach and Curt Metze.