The municipality of Lautertal was created on December 31, 1971, as part of the territorial reform in Hesse by the voluntary merger of four previously independent municipalities: Elmshausen (without the district of Wilmshausen), Gadernheim (with Raidelbach, but without the district of Kolmbach), Lautern and Reichenbach, into which the municipality of Beedenkirchen (with Staffel) was incorporated on the same day. On August 1, 1972, the municipalities of Knoden and Schannenbach as well as parts of the Reichenbach district, which belonged to the city of Bensheim, were incorporated by law into the newly formed municipality. On 1 January 1977, the hamlet of Schmal-Beerbach followed, which until then belonged to the district of Ober-Beerbach and the municipality of Seeheim (Darmstadt district).
For the districts of Reichenbach, Elmshausen, Lautern, Gadernheim, Raidelbach, Knoden with Breitenwiesen, Schannenbach and Beedenkirchen with Schmal-Beerbach, Staffel and Wurzelbach was established each a local district with a local council and local chief.
The origin of the individual parts of the municipality is partly already in Roman times (see Felsenmeer) and in the Middle Ages (of a presumably once existing castle near Gadernheim, however, no remains have survived).
The name of the municipality was officially changed on July 1, 1980 in Lautertal (Odenwald).
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