Earlier known as Kiedenheim, the village lay in the lower Nahegau (a county) and for a great length of time was subservient to the castle at Alzey.

Northeast of Kettenheim lay the village of Egersheim or Ergisheim which later vanished, most likely shortly after the Thirty Years' War.

Hessensteiger Mühle I: Proof of this mill's existence can be found through entries of christenings, births and so on in the church books since at least 1570, before which it likely belonged to Weidas Monastery in Dautenheim (now an outlying centre of Alzey), thereby meaning that it could indeed be much older.

Hessensteiger Mühle II: Proof of this mill's existence goes back to 1840 in a fire survey in the Town of Alzey archives.

The mills stand at the municipal limits with Alzey-Dautenheim underneath the Dautenheim Autobahn valley viaduct.