Until the
French Revolution, Assenheim belonged to the
House of Leiningen-Dagsburg. From 1798 to 1814, when the
Palatinate was part of the
French Republic (which became the
Napoleonic Empire in 1804), Assenheim was in the . After the
Congress of Vienna in 1815, Assenheim initially belonged to the
Austrian Empire and then moved to the
Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816. From 1818 to 1862, it belonged to the . From 1886, Assenheim was part of the newly created
Bezirksamts Ludwigshafen. In 1928, Assenheim had 524 inhabitants, who lived in 109 households. At the time, the Catholics belonged to the parish of
Hochdorf, while the Protestants belonged to that of . Since 1938 the village has been part of the Ludwigshafen district (
Landkreis Ludwigshafen), which has been called
Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis since 2004. After the
Second World War, Assenheim was part of the then newly formed state of
Rhineland-Palatinate within the
French occupation zone. On June 7, 1969, during the course of the Assenheim was merged with the neighboring municipality of
Hochdorf to form
Hochdorf-Assenheim. == References ==