The family Boos von Waldeck and the Counts of Katzenelnbogen drew income from the village.

Together with several other nearby places it forms the Evangelical parish of Gödenroth-Heyweiler within the church district of Simmern-Trarbach.

Notable clergyman in this parish have been, among others, Friedrich Langensiepen, Manfred Josuttis and Klaus-Peter Jörns.

[1] The municipality's website devotes a great deal of text to explaining the charges in its arms, but unfortunately, this does not include a blazon.

The red and silver fields refer to the village's former allegiance to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, which beginning in the 14th century was the local landholder.

The building standing as a charge in the arms is the old 18th-century town hall, which was dismantled and reassembled at the “Roscheider Hof” open-air museum near Konz.

It is also, in a way, a canting charge, at least for the last syllable in the municipality's name (the —roth ending stems from the same root as the German verb roden, meaning “clear”, with reference to woods, and the German name for this tool is Rodehacke, literally “clearing hoe”).