[4] The first building probably had forms of a three-aisled basilica of four bays with an indented, rectangularly closed choir and a pair of towers on the west side.

[3] The west façade of the sacred building is unique for churches in the city;[4] the nave and choir are of Gothic style, despite the Romanesque clerestory.

In 1293, an archbishop's endowment states, "church badly destroyed by fire blight" – a new building is to be erected soon.

During the French occupation under Napoleon, the plundered and internally devastated church served as a military hospital.

Next to the main portal on the outside, there is currently a bronze statue of the "Mildenfurth Cross Man", created by the Thuringian sculptor Volkmar Kühn in 2002.

It is presented in three different states: The pulpit (probably from 1687) comes from the monastery church of St Pancratius in Hamersleben and shows the four evangelists.