The location is named after the former courthouse on the Heppenheimer Landberg, where justice was administered for more than a thousand years. In 1904, individual parcels of land between Bensheim and Heppenheim were selected by the Grand Ducal Administration of Hesse-Darmstadt and cultivated in their newly founded model farm. In 1946 this operation became part of the Hessian State Winery GmbH Kloster Eberbach.