Since the middle of the 12th century, a place known as "Lutrea Wilrea" was recorded as being the home of a settlement of either cannons or monks.

From this settlement arose the Fraulautern Abbey, a Stift made up of noble Augustinian nuns.

From 1581, the cloister belonged to the Duchy of Lorraine, however, the town successfully contended for Imperial immediacy in the Holy Roman Empire before the Reichskammergericht on account of its holdings in Schwarzenholz.

The move of the Saarlouis Central Station to its present location in Roden occurred on 19 December 1912.

On 1 December 1944 air raids destroyed large portions of Fraulautern, including the parish church and the Apollonia-Kapelle.