In 1886, the population of the German colony of Karlsruhe was 2,132 people; at which time it was part of the Landau parish, Odessa district, Kherson Governorate.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul was designed by the architect Korfu (Corfu) and was constructed from 1881 to 1885.

In 1925–1939, the Karlsruhe colony was part of Karl-Liebknechtovsky's German National District of Mykolaiv region (from Odessa Oblast since 1932).

Several pictures of the church dated from the 1930s and 40s were published in a German language book called “Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutsche”.

Battle damage is present on its exterior from small-arms fire and shrapnel from undated events.