Today, it is a subsidiary church of the Catholic parish of St Lawrence's Church. St Wigbert's Church was first mentioned in a document in The patron saint of the church is Saint Wigbert , who was a companion of Boniface , the founder of the diocese. In , the Order of the Augustinian Hermits acquired the Valentinerhof "Valentines' Yard" in the immediate vicinity of the church for a new monastery building.
After Erfurt was returned to the territorial power of Mainz in , the church functioned as the court church of the neighbouring governors until Until the final dissolution of the monastery in , the respective head of the monastery was also the parish pastor.
With the closure of the monastery, all the monastery buildings except for the cloister and the sacristy were confiscated and since then have exclusively housed state institutions. In , a new altar was consecrated. In , the Schuke organ was installed. In , the parishes of St Wigbert and Neuwerkskirche were united into one parish, which was absorbed into the newly formed "Inner City Parish of St Lawrence" in January The last major renovation took place at the beginning of the new millennium.
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