The church was probably built in early 1189 and first documented in 1195. It was rebuilt in Gothic style around 1310 and finished around 1418. The tower foundation was laid in 1342, and a copper spire was added in 1516. Napoleonic soldiers used it as a stable from 1813. The great fire of May 1842 badly damaged it, and Alexis de Chateauneuf and Hermann Peter Fersenfeldt rebuilt it, taking about seven years. Johann Hermann Maack designed the copper spire. The tower was finished in 1878 and stands 433 feet (132 m) high.
Acid attacked two paintings in 1977, and they were restored in 2001. Nuclear power protesters occupied it in 1979.
It is a Lutheran church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany, and is called a Protestant cathedral. The article gives no heritage status.
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