Adjacent communities - clockwise starting north - are Weisenheim am Sand, Lambsheim, Maxdorf, Fußgönheim, Ellerstadt, Bad Dürkheim and Erpolzheim.

In 1936, the Großsiedlung Hundertmorgen was built on a stretch of land by the German Labor Front, where Eyersheim had been located before it was abandoned.

In 1939, the settlement was expanded by the development of today's town center with larger one- and two-family houses.

In 1946, the population had grown to about 1200, mainly by immigrants and refugees who were housed in makeshift shelters in the northeast of the village.

Soon a separate elementary school, kindergartens, a fire station and other communal facilities were built.

In 1970 Birkenheide made an incorporation agreement with Ludwigshafen, however this was rejected by Maxdorf and the Rhineland-Palatinate government.