Among the submitted 4 projects for the competition, the project of the architect Hermann-Karl Shevrembrandt

For the architect G. K.Shevrembrandt apparent prototypes were the famous Romanesque churches in Germany

Shortly before the collapse of the USSR, Wiedergeburd («Revival») society, which later became the first union of the German national and cultural minorities in the former Soviet Union

In February 1920, power of the Bolsheviks was established in Odessa, and in October 1921, a special committee withdrew church registers of births, which had been conducted since 1820

Cruel fate fell to one of the most significant objects of historical center of Odessa — St. Paul’s Lutheran Church