When the area came to the Bohemian nobleman Hinko Birke von der Duba through barter and purchase transactions, it was noted in the deed of sale: "The Würdenhain Wall shall not be built upon or timbered for eternity".

After the Peaceful Revolution, Würdenhain and the surrounding villages of Haida, Prösen, Reichenhain, Saathain, Stolzenhain and Wainsdorf formed the municipality of Röderland on 26 October 2003.

Its centrepiece, the Forsthaus Prösa nature reserve with one of the largest contiguous sessile oak forests in Central Europe, lies only a few kilometres north of Würdenhain in the former Liebenwerda Heath.

Its conservation purpose is, among other things, to preserve and develop this area as a habitat for the Elbe beaver and other animal species whose existence is threatened.

The Röder lowlands, which were placed under nature conservation as early as 1981, are home to one of the most consistent occurrences of the endangered Elbe beaver.

[10] Since the merger of Würdenhain with the surrounding villages of Haida, Prösen, Reichenhain, Saathain, Stolzenhain and Wainsdorf on October 26, 2003,[2] the district has been part of the Röderland municipality.

A cockerel was also on a wind vane made in Haida in 1825 for five thalers on the tower of the Würdenhain church, which was destroyed by a storm in 1972.