The article credits Johann Friedrich Christian Hess with the neoclassical building, while the body says Johann Andreas Liebhardt was commissioned to construct it in 1789 and Hess completed it. The Free City of Frankfurt built it for the Lutheran state church. Construction began in 1789, halted during the Napoleonic Wars, and finished between 1829 and 1833.
The introduction calls the building circular, and the body calls it oval. The Vorparlament met here from March 31 to April 3, 1848, and the National Assembly met from May 18, 1848 and was dissolved on May 30, 1849.
Allied bombing destroyed the church in March 1944. It was the first structure the city rebuilt after the war and reopened on the centennial of the Frankfurt Parliament. Rudolf Schwarz's team dramatically altered the original interior, and an inserted floor separates a basement display room from the main hall.
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