In 1987, Roth celebrated its 800th anniversary, the grounds for doing so being the oldest known document that contains the village's name, one from Rupertsberg Abbey near Bingen from the year 1187.

According to this parchment, now kept at the Koblenz State Archive, Archbishop of Mainz Conrad I freed the monastery and its holdings from episcopal taxation and put them under his protection.

Even if the document was not sealed, that is to say, never gained the force of law, the presence of that name in its text is still proof that the village existed that long ago.

The Viergemeindewald ("Four-Municipality Forest") on which lie not only Roth but also Waldlaubersheim, Genheim (now a constituent community of Waldalgesheim), Warmsroth and Wald-Erbach, bears witness to the village's membership in this greater municipal area after 1589.

The jurisdiction by Schöffen (roughly "lay jurists") in Roth in those days was exercised by Hermanus von Genheim for Rodenkirchen (or Rothenkirchen) Abbey near Kirchheimbolanden.

As a document filled out in Mainz has it, the knight Sir Heinrich of Glymendail and his wife Christina – who seemingly held a great many landholds in Roth – donated "produce benefits at Rod (Roth)" to Rupertsberg Abbey in 1283 to keep their memory alive with yearly Masses on the anniversaries of their deaths, and also donated further holdings near the village of Rod against a yearly annuity of 20 Malter of corn (likely either wheat or rye).

Administratively, Roth, along with Genheim, which through its amalgamation with Waldalgesheim was removed from this historical tie, and Eckenroth belonged quite early on to the Stromburg (the castle above the town of Stromberg), which itself was under royal or Imperial ownership until 1156.

The village chronicle from 1877 says that it had been "provided" by Eibingen Abbey (whose site is now occupied by Saint Hildegard's Church in Rüdesheim an der Nahe-Eibingen).

After French rule had ended and the Congress of Vienna had delivered its terms in 1815, Roth passed to the Kingdom of Prussia and Stromberg once again became a Bürgermeisterei ("mayoralty").

In the 1930s, a local man named Peter Steyer II, who was quite old by this time, was still proudly boasting of his days in the Prussian Guard, and still had nothing but utter contempt for the "blind" Hessians.

With the amalgamation of Genheim with Waldalgesheim and the formation of the Mainz-Bingen district, Roth then lay with its 84 ha municipal area at the boundary between the Regierungsbezirke of Koblenz and Rheinhessen-Pfalz.

Mayor of Stromberg Hoßeus introduced the hitherto acting reeve into office in accordance with a decree from district chairman Agricola.

The grain and fruit harvests formed the regular, if low, income, dependent as they were on the weather's vagaries and freedom from agricultural pests.

In times of drought, according to the relevant decisions from municipal council, some livestock had to be slaughtered and leaves were used instead of straw and grass as fodder, all of which was supplied from the Rother Wald (forest) beyond Warmsroth.

Since Roth's forests were made up of trees that supplied tanbark to the tanning industry, this downturn in the market was keenly felt in the village.

On Sunday 18 March 1945, American tank columns came rolling along Reichsstraße 50 from Stromberg as far as the turnoff towards Roth, and then trained their gun turrets on the village.

The reeve, Peter Steyer I, who had served since 1916, was allowed to remain in office even under American occupation, which was a rare exception to what generally happened in that time.

In 1980, 38.9% of the workforce commuted to Bingen, 13.2% to Mainz, 11% to Stromberg, 9.7% to Rümmelsheim (Pieroth), 6.6% to Rheinböllen (Tewes), 5.6% to Bad Kreuznach and the rest elsewhere.

In connection with this, the road planned as Bundesstraße 400 and built as Autobahn 14 – and now called the A 61 – which brings Roth a great deal of noise and air pollution, has shown its positive side.

The Gasthaus zur Alten Linde ("Inn at the Old Limetree"), owned by the Families Kasper and Orben, was closed in 1991, and thus vanished the village's social hub.

Happily, however, Reinhold Sturm opened a Straußwirtschaft "in der Trift" (a street) on 8 August 2003, furnishing the village with a new social hub.

After the village streets had been updated in 1967, it became possible in the years that followed to begin work on the "An dem Stemel" phase of the building plan.

As early as 1971, thoughts turned to satisfying the further demand for building land, and so, in the years that followed, a further building zone, called "In der Nonnenwies", was opened (this is actually a street's name, and it seems that until 1889, when the municipality gave up keeping cattle, it was a cow path called der Kuhweg, which means just that in German; its current name, however, means "in the nuns' meadow").

Council, headed by mayor Helmut Höning, saw a solution to the problem in raising the municipality's population figures, but this would only be possible if more building land became available.

[12][13] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per bend sinister argent issuant from the line of partition an abbot's staff palewise gules and sable a lion's head erased Or langued and crowned of the second.

The charge on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side, the lion's head "erased" (that is, not showing any part of the neck) is a reduced form of the heraldic device once borne by Electoral Palatinate, and is thus a reference to the village's former allegiance to that state.

Ever since, this festival has been bringing locals and fanciers from the surrounding villages together on the first weekend in October[19] with its Federweisser and Pellkartoffeln (potatoes boiled in their jackets) with liverwurst.

The municipality, though, fought for its own school, and for a while, the people's petitions and their promise to accommodate the schoolchildren properly met with some success.

Possibly because of these circumstances, municipal council, headed by reeve Martin Heinrich and represented by councillors Partenheimer, Höning, Leinberger, Kruger, Piroth I and Sturm, with the prospect of certain aid, declared themselves ready on 30 October 1891 to plan specially the building of a "Catholic schoolhouse" in Roth.

The plans to convert the parish hall were turned aside for lack of an acceptable means of housing the schoolteacher (it was only in 1938 that the old bakehouse was torn down and built anew, together with the oven).