Text and tune were written and composed, in a similar tempo to the Prussian Army military marches that were widely popular during the German Empire, as an anthem of nonviolent resistance to Otto von Bismarck's anti-Catholic Kulturkampf by Fr.

Born Joseph Hermann Mohr in Siegburg in 1834 the son of a teacher, the hymn writer was a member of the Society of Jesus from 1853, and a priest from 1866.

Published in 1876, the song is regarded as an anthem of Catholic nonviolent resistance (kirchlicher Widerstand) to the Iron Chancellor and to the concept of Caesaropapism.

Mohr's salvation theology as expressed in his lyrics drew harsh criticism from ascendant Modernists, most notably by Ida Friederike Görres, for allegedly being "dated".

[7] Marx's replacement stanzas, like those in the many other similarly rewritten hymns in both Gotteslob hymnals, have since received extremely harsh criticism over their alleged inferiority to Fr.

[8] Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet Weit über alle Land', Aus ew'gem Stein erbauet Von Gottes Meisterhand.

wir preisen dich; O laß im Hause dein Uns all geborgen sein!