 Previously there was another community in the town, Lauterstein, but it was later absorbed into Kirchardt proper.The town of Kirchardt has approximately 5,500 inhabitants, of which 3,700 live in Kirchardt itself, with 1,400 in Berwangen and 400 people in Bockschaft.The first signs of human activity in the area date from the Bronze Age, but the earliest settlement to be detected so far was Celtic, from the sixth century B.C.E.. From 90 to 260 C.E., the occupying Romans constructed streets and buildings in various parts of "civitas alisinensis" (the area which would later become Elsenzgau) to support the Neckar-Odenwald limes.