The church's catchment area presumably extended beyond the boundaries of the long-stretched original district of Schwanheim, which went in the west from the Mönchhof near Raunheim via Klaraberg, Kelsterbach, the Goldstein, Niederrad, and Sachsenhausen to Oberrad.

The branch chapel of St. Mauritius with a cemetery near the old village of Schwanheim was raised to the status of a parish church and expanded between 1557 and 1562.

[2] In the 19th century, Schwanheim experienced slow development from a farming village to a workers' settlement, influenced by the chemical industry in nearby areas and economic ties with Frankfurt.

The village received a closer connection to the Frankfurter Waldbahn [de] in 1889, making the previous halt on the Hessian Ludwigsbahn almost obsolete.

Construction of the Goldstein settlement began in the spring of 1932, and the Griesheim barrage was built between 1929 and 1932 as a replacement for two older needle weirs.