 A few hundred years ago the area was swamp, moor and fen, hence the name for the settlement Vennhausen, which is derived from "Venn", a Low German word for fen.Vennhausen became a settlement much later than its neighbouring boroughs, starting in the Tannenhof.In 1809 Vennhausen became a part of the communal district of Gerresheim due to the Napoleonic area reforms at that time.