The community's first Catholic service took place in 1910 in what is now the Gerhart Hauptmann Museum. In the 1920s, a former military barracks on the museum's grounds was converted into a small chapel, "Stella Maris". Due to the limited capacity, the St. Bonifatius Church was built in 1932 in the neo-Romanesque style.
The church was named after Wynfreth, a missionary and church reformer in the Frankish Empire, who was born in England around 672. Since the 16th century he has been venerated as the "Apostle of the Germans" for his extensive missionary work and was canonized by Pope Pius IX in 1855. In 1936 the church received a relic of Saint Boniface (bone fragment), which was the reason for pilgrimages to Erkner until the 1950s. The church was not consecrated until 1941.
The air raid on Erkner on March 8, 1944 also caused immense damage to the church and the rectory; reconstruction was completed in 1949. Since 1949, the church has also housed a small organ made by the renowned organ building company Sauer. This was expanded in the 1990s and inaugurated in March 1997. Among other things, metal pipes were installed from the organ in the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, also made by the Sauer company, which was to make way for a new one.
The church is located in the western part of the city. The nearest bus stop is Erkner - Robinienweg. The Erkner regional and suburban train station with the central bus station is also not far away. The European cycle route, the Spree cycle route and the Way of St. James all pass very close to the church.
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