After the church of the Reformed and the Lutherans, the Catholic chapel built between 1701 and 1705 on the upper market street emerged as the third place of worship in old Neuwied, at that time still a dirt road outside the town. Expanded to double its size in 1852, the church was demolished in 1902 because it had also become dilapidated and was now too small, and instead, the St. Matthias Church was constructed by the architect Heinrich Krings on Heddesdorfer Straße from 1899 to 1904, which, like the market church, is a neo-Gothic hall building. It was consecrated in 1904. The large choral and side windows, destroyed by the effects of war, were initially partly bricked up and partly replaced by smaller, narrower windows, but were later restored to their original size and adorned with new stained glass. In 1979, the vine painting was restored.