Close to the shopping district, it serves as a place of rest even to visitors who are not religious.

The first sacred building on the site began as a family chapel, which was made in 1325 a collegiate church by the archbishop of Mainz, Matthias von Buchegg [de], dedicated to Mary ("Unsere liebe Frau").

From 1415, the south facade was transformed, including a tympanum showing the Adoration of the Magi made by the workshop of Madern Gerthener.

[3] The church remained Catholic, part of the Diocese of Mainz, even when the Reformation was introduced in Frankfurt in 1533.

The church was restored in the 1950s, but in a simplified form, replacing the Gothic vaults by wooden ceilings.

[5] It is especially suited to play both works of the German Romantic period as the French symphonic style.