West of the municipality, on the opposite side of the Rhine in the Rhineland-Palatinate is the city of Speyer.

One can find the following documented: Lossa, Locze, Loszem, Lossem, Lozsheim, Lussem, Luzheim, and later Lußheim.

In the year 496/497, the Franks attacked the local ruling Allemanni and drove them back to the Murg.

The Maulbronn Abbey had full rights over all Schultheiß (sheriff or reeve), citizens, and serfs.

Because of the extremes between the count palantine Fredrick I and the lord of the Maulbronn Abbey, Ulrich, duke of Württemberg, the residents of Lußheim suffered greatly.

Lußheim was left to its fate for years under the friction between the patrons of Württemberg and the bishops of Speyer.

Two thirds of the villages and the Schultheiß Johann Konrad Zeitern were murdered by enemy soldiers.

At the time of the construction of the Speyer Cathedral in 1774, Lußheim was required to quarry, bake, and deliver 200,000 bricks.

From 1804 to 1882, as the Rhine levee was built to Speyer and the green drainage was carried out, a lot of land could be made farmable.

The original fishing village, Lußheim, became important due to the establishment of a ferry.

The blazon is sable with a lion or with claws and tongue gules rampant behind a base trio of hill vert and grasping a leafed-staff or.

On the recommendation of the general archive of the state, Altlußheim adopted the current coat of arms in 1900.