The present building dates back to the a hall church in late Gothic style, built between 1498 and 1500.

[2] The choir served as the burial place of members of nobility of the House of Wettin in the Ernestine duchies.

[2] The ducal family evidently attended services not only in the small Schloßkirche, but also in the town church.

Die Erde jubilieret, BWV 31 for the Easter Sunday of 1715, scored for soloists, a five-part choir and three instrumental groups.

[4] The church is often called "Herderkirche" after the famous theologian and philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who worked from in 1776 until his death in 1803 as general superintendent.

[9] Not much is left of the original Gothic interior, the baptismal font, the stairs to the pulpit and parts of a mural of St. Ursula.