Rittershoffen is mentioned for the first time in 1227 as a fief of the Empire.
It belongs successively to Lichtenberg and Fleckenstein.
The mid-sixteenth, the Hanau-Lichtenberg acquire and smuggle the reform in 1545, but in 1685, year of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, a simultaneum is implemented.
The Joint Church, built in 1787, has destroyed the whole village during the tank battle in January 1945, the wall of the old Protestant presbytery still bears the bullet holes testifying to the heavy fighting. The new Protestant church was built in its place.
