 The small municipality of Ludwigshöhe lies in Rhenish Hesse, in the Rhine rift a short way west of the Rhine on the old Mainz-Worms trade road, nowadays known as "Bundesstraße" 9, almost exactly halfway between the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital of Mainz and the "Nibelungstadt" of Worms.Ludwigshöhe is a comparatively new place, but it goes back to the Merovingian community of Rudelsheim.A dykeburst in 1819 brought about a shift in that place’s population to higher ground on a nearby hill.