The town of Ludwigshöhe and its church are relatively young. The original town of Rudelsheim was located in the Rhine floodplains and was largely abandoned after a flood disaster in 1819. The last residents moved their houses to a higher location in 1830, and the original Rudelsheim church was destroyed by fire in 1832. In 1848, the new St. Vitus Church was built in the new village of Ludwigshöhe, towering above the village.
