The first church was built here in 1465. This rather modest building later served as the court church for the Hohenzollern family. The church was replaced by a cathedral, built between 1745 and 1747 in a Baroque design from Johann Boumann. It was remodeled into a classicist building from 1816 to 1822 following a design by the Berlin architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.On Emperor Wilhelm II's order, this domed building was demolished in 1894 and replaced by the current cathedral. Much larger than any of the previous buildings, it was a protestant counterweight to the catholic St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The Baroque building with Italian Renaissance influences was designed by Julius Raschdorff. It is unusually ornate for a protestant church.Construction of the 114m long and 73m wide cathedral took place between 1894 and 1905.