The present church was built in the 15th century in Late-Gothic style, a home for Premonstratensian friars from a dissolved monastery.

Mariä Krönung is a significant cultural monument in southern Germany, because it retains many original Gothic features, such as the rood loft and fused stained-glass windows.

Tradition says that a shepherd followed the singing of a wonderful voice to a hollow tree beside a spring, in which he found a statue of Mary, mother of Jesus.

[4] Construction was supported by local families belonging to the lower nobility, especially the Schauenburgs, as well as peasants.

In 1895, Max Meckel [de] expanded the church, adding two bays and a neogothic steeple.

[4] The 59 glass windows, created in the workshop of Peter Hemmel of Andlau,[1][8] between 1480 and 1489,[2] are of particular historic and cultural value.

[2] Stained-glass windows are usually made by joining pieces of coloured glass with H-shaped lead cames, a cold process.

[citation needed] It is believed to be the only pre-1500 altar of the Strasbourg school which survived both the Reformation and the French Revolution.