The official name is Stadtpfarrkirche St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (English: Parish Church of St. Mary of the Assumption).

Built in Romanesque Revival style, it is also called Marienkirche, and Dom zu Landau, for its dominant size reminiscent of a cathedral.

In Landau, Catholic and Protestant Christians shared a Medieval Gothic church building, the Stiftskirche [de].

In 1904, Joseph Cades [de] from Stuttgart, and master builder of the Diocese of Rottenburg, was commissioned to design a new church.

[1] When building had been completed, it was consecrated on 12 June 1911 by Bishop Michael von Faulhaber, naming it in Latin ""St. Maria in coelum assumpta".

In 2010 to 2012, the organ was restored to its original late-Romantic sound by Romanus Seifert & Sohn [de] from Kevelaer.