Some of the individual constituent communities had their beginnings in Roman times and the Middle Ages (of a castle that supposedly once stood near Gadernheim, there is no trace today).

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results: Andreas Heun (SPD) is Lautertal's mayor since 2018.

Besides the many local hiking trails, two European long-distance paths cross in Lautertal, E1 and E8 Popular with families is the nationally known Felsenmeer above the constituent community of Reichenbach.

The Romans used the Felsenmeer as a source of building material, witnessing which is, among other things, the so-called Riesensäule – “Giant's Column”.

The project initiators chose the 25th anniversary of the Darmstadt chapter of the Odenwaldklub as the occasion on which to formally open the tower to the public in a dedication ceremony on 7 July 1907.

In 1912 and 1913, the well known Art Nouveau architect Heinrich Metzendorf built this great church in the so-called Heimatstil (“Homeland style”).

It is a one-room church with overhanging polygonal apse and a façade tower, all topped with steep roofs.