The German Church in Stockholm grew from the headquarters of the German guild of St. Gertrude, founded on the site in the 14th century and rebuilt as a church from the 1580s. Wilhelm Boy, Hubert de Besche and Hans Jacob Kristler enlarged it into a two-nave church in 1638 to 1642. King Charles IX gave the premises exclusively to the Germans in 1607. Nicodemus Tessin the Elder designed the king's gallery.
The article describes a Baroque interior and Neogothic gargoyles. A fire destroyed the tower in 1878, and Julius Carl Raschdorff designed the brick steeple with a copper spire. Steeple and spire total 315 feet (96 m), and the altar is 33 feet (10 m) tall.
It is an active Church of Sweden parish with German services on Sundays. A carillon plays four times daily.
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