Hans von Burghausen started construction around 1389, and five architects managed the site over roughly 110 years. The city chronicle first mentions it in 1392, and it was completed and dedicated in 1500. A cited source gives 1385 and 1507 instead. It replaced a small earlier church. The article names no client.
It is Brick Gothic, on a foundation of about 5,000 wooden stakes set in groundwater. The tower alone took 55 years and stands 428 feet (130.6 m) high. The article calls it the tallest brick building in the world in one place and second after the Anaconda Smelter Stack in another.
Michel Erhart's crucifix was installed in 1495, and Hans Leinberger made the ring Madonna around 1520. It is a Roman Catholic church.
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