Also belonging to Meddersheim are the outlying homesteads of Lohmühle, Schliffgesmühle, Am Meisenheimer Pfad, and the "Felke-Kurhaus Menschel" ("Englischer Hof").

The current clump village arose in Frankish times (6th century) at a favourable, flat site as a crossroads outside the River Nahe's floodplain.

Until the 13th century, the village of Meddersheim belonged to the Archbishops of Mainz, then passing by way of pledge to the Waldgraves at the Kyrburg (castle).

Meddersheim became the seat of a mairie ("mayoralty") in the Canton of Meisenheim, which also comprised Kirschroth and Staudernheim and lay in the Department of Sarre.

After Napoleon had been driven out in 1814, Meddersheim was, after a short transitional time, assigned under the terms of the Congress of Vienna in 1816 to the Oberamt of Meisenheim, and it was then furthermore the seat of an Oberschultheißerei.

Then, in 1869, the region passed to the Kingdom of Prussia, and Meddersheim now belonged to the Meisenheim district in the Regierungsbezirk of Koblenz in the Rhine Province.

The flax extensively grown here on the heaths, whose poorer soils were subjected to controlled burns, was retted in a great flax-retting tank, which is believed to have been communally organized.

), there were major brick kilns, and at their ends lay the hot-air shaft measuring about 2 × 3 m on which the flax was retted so that it could then be scutched and heckled.

A few epitaphs, a ceiling-high sacramental shrine in the Gothic quire and a Stumm organ, together with a series of pictures in the gallery, bear witness to the wealth of this winegrowing, farming and craft village.

Research in the village has drawn different accounts from Meddersheim inhabitants regarding where the former Jewish community's prayer room was.

In the years that followed, though, some of the Jews moved away or even emigrated in the face of the boycotting of their businesses, the progressive stripping of their rights and repression, all brought about by the Nazis.

The livestock dealer Leo Rauner went to Pittsburgh in 1938, and a few Family Ostermann members also went to the United States.

According to the Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under National Socialist Tyranny") and Yad Vashem, of all Jews who either were born in Meddersheim or lived there for a long time, seven were killed during Nazi persecution (birthdates in brackets): As at 30 November 2013, there are 1,344 full-time residents in Meddersheim, and of those, 811 are Evangelical (60.342%), 250 are Catholic (18.601%), 15 (1.116%) belong to other religious groups and 268 (19.94%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[7] Meddersheim's mayor is Renate Weingarth-Schenk, and her deputies are Karl Curt Bamberger, Michael Engisch and Günter Weinel.

[8] The German blazon reads: In Blau auf silbernem Roß, der golden nimbierte, rot gekleidete St. Martin, der mit silbernem Schwert den roten Mantel dem auf der Erde sitzenden Bettler zuteilt; im linken Obereck ein goldenes Schildchen, darin ein roter, blau gekrönter Löwenkopf.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure on a horse passant argent bridled sable and saddled of the field Saint Martin reguardant with nimbus Or vested gules cutting his mantle with a sword of the second for a beggar man sitting on the ground, in sinister chief an inescutcheon of the fourth charged with a lion's head erased of the fifth crowned of the first.

For heraldic reasons, the lion's head is borne in Meddersheim's arms in reversed tinctures.

The graveyard lies southeast of Meddersheim on the slope of the Dornberg near the so-called Mühlenwäldchen ("Little Mill Wood").

There the festival begins with the tapping of the Meddersheim wine barrel and the free dispensing of the contents by the incumbent mayor.

Vying in 2012 in the contest Unser Dorf hat Zukunft ("Our village has a future") at the state level were 269 municipalities.

Among the 12 villages in the main class, Meddersheim earned a respectable place in the middle of the field.

Before this, Meddersheim had qualified at the district and regional (Koblenz) contests as a winner in the main class.