After the foundation of a hermitage in 1074, of which no vestige remains, a church was built from 1105 by the will of Frederick, Duke of Swabia and Peter, Count of Lutzelbourg. The lower parts of the walls of the nave remain from this building. To the south, a side door has retained its two sculpted jambs (incomplete). In 1456, Abbot Burckhard of Mullenheim had the choir rebuilt, the walls of the nave raised, openings made in the west wall of the nave and a so-called chapel of angels, now the sacristy, built under the direction of the architect Hans Boeblinger. After the Thirty Years' War, the abbey was occupied by the Strasbourg seminary, run by Jesuits. During the Revolution, it was sold to individuals and the church was offered to the town of Walbourg by Michel Pierre Saglio in 1805. In 1945, the church was hit by aerial bombardments and was restored from 1949.