The Gothic hall church is located on the northern edge of Anger square and at the beginning of the Schlösserstraße in the centre of the historical part of Erfurt.

[1] It was first built around 1140, consecrated by the then provost of Erfurt and later archbishop of Mainz, Adelbert II, and had been a parish church since its foundation.

A second building was probably erected at the end of the 13th to the beginning of the 14th century in Gothic style; the square tower and parts of the west wall are the last evidence of this era.

It reminds that the first prayers were directed "against the introduction of military education in schools by the Socialist Unity Party dictatorship of the time".

[1] This quickly developed into the Thursday demonstrations in Erfurt at the time of the Peaceful Revolution with tens of thousands of participants.