The Freudenberg estate was built from 1932 onwards on a former parade ground between Dotzheim and Schierstein. The "Randsiedler- und Kleingartenverein Freudenberg e.V." was founded in 1931.

In January 1932, the Wiesbaden city council concluded a contract with Nassauische Heimstätte for the sponsorship and construction of initially 40 simple houses with generously sized gardens. The selected settlers had to be physically fit, unemployed and family men with knowledge of agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry. They were obliged to carry out any work required on the building sites and grounds - without payment. In return, they were promised the transfer of the houses and land after a three-year "probationary period".

The ground-breaking ceremony took place on March 19, 1932 and the first of the 40 houses in Fliederweg was occupied by the end of August. In three further construction phases, a total of 190 residential units were built by the end of 1935. The Freudenberg estate was thus completed. After the war damage had been repaired - the bombs that fell in the night of February 2 to 3, 1945 completely destroyed 22 houses alone - the existing houses were mainly extended in the 1950s; the estate was only expanded in the 1960s. The final expansion stage was reached in 1976.

In the second half of the 1990s, the new residential area "Auf der Heide" was built on the former barracks site in the north-west of the Freudenberg estate, later known as Camp Pieri of the US armed forces.