In the 1850s, the area was directly impacted by the development of the railway: as a consequence, a large German population settled in the district to take part in the working effort, spanning from the 1870s to the 1900s.

The designer of the temple was the architect Heinrich Seeling from Berlin who also conceived in Bydgoszcz: The design was penned on 21 March 1894: at the time, construction costs amounted to 120,000 Deutsche Mark[3] The foundation stone of the Christ church (German: Christuskirche) took place on 28 March 1896 and the consecration occurred on 27 October 1897 by Dr. Johannes Hesekiel.

[4] In 1901, a square was created around the edifice, which is delimited by present-day streets Warszawska, Aleksander Fredro, John III Sobieski and Józef Sowiński.

This statue comes from the tomb of the Blumwe family, located in the cemetery at Jagiellońska street, liquidated in 1951-1952 (nowadays Ludowy Park).

The church has a medieval character, with buttresses, gables and grand windows, decorated with tracery, characteristic of English Gothic architecture.

[3] In 1945, Jan Kossowski supervised the repair works and designed a low gable roof topped by a decorative turret to crown the squat tower.

[5] Lateral and chancel walls are divided by stepped buttresses and pierced by large windows segmented in five split openings.