After the French Revolution, the Rhine’s left bank, and thereby Büdlich too, were ceded to France.

Through a law from 26 March 1798, the French abolished feudal rights in their zone of occupation.

After French rule ended, the village passed in 1814 to the Kingdom of Prussia.

North of Büdlich, the Dhron Valley Dam (Dhrontalsperre) was built in 1911.

[1] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per pall reversed, dexter argent a cross gules, sinister Or a ploughshare palewise sable, the point to base, and in base vert an oakleaf palewise of the third, conjoining the base field at the cusp a tower embattled of three of the same with a window of the fourth.