In 1337 King John of Bohemia, Count of Luxembourg, built "Freudenburg" at the foot of the Eiderberg, at that time called "Freyding".

In the dispute between the abbey and Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern the castle was occupied in 1646 by Trier Archdiocese troops, destroyed and was not rebuilt.

The community of Hospitals were assigned the ruins as part of a secularization exercise, which they later sold in 1861 to the local authority.

On 18 July 1946 Freudenburg was affiliated with another 80 municipalities across Trier and Saarburg Counties that, earlier, in February 1946 had been separated from the rest of the French occupation zone Saar territory, which was by then no longer under the Allied Control Council .

The distribution of seats in the local council:[4] Freudenburg has a primary school, a football club as well as a kindergarten and children's playgrounds.