 In 1978 the municipalities of Buttenwiesen, Frauenstetten, Lauterbach, Oberthürheim, Pfaffenhofen a.d.Zusam, Unterthürheim and Wortelstetten were united to one comune called Buttenwiesen.In the 1970s existed the idea to build a nuclear powerplant in Pfaffenhofen a. d. Zusam.Only in 1999 this idea was cancelled.