The Aschbach rises on the north slope of the Hahnenkopf, a lesser peak in the Königsberg group, and flows northnorthwestwards towards the Glan.

Aschbach also meets the municipalities of Lohnweiler and Rutsweiler an der Lauter at single points in the northeast and southeast respectively.

Many objects of worship and everyday use were unearthed, four neckrings, about 15 armrings, six footrings, several rings, many bronze pieces, urn shards and flint arrowheads.

Also unearthed by archaeologists was an ironworks next to the path between the hiking car park and Kreuzfeld, south of the former baryte quarry.

[5] Aschbach shares a great deal of its mediaeval history with all other villages in the Eßweiler Tal (dale), for in many ways, they together form a unit.

Besides Aschbach itself, these were Hundheim (Neuenglan), Hachenbach, Hinzweiler, Nerzweiler, Horschbach, Oberweiler, Elzweiler, Eßweiler and the now vanished villages of Letzweiler, Niederaschbach, Nörweiler, Mittelhofen, Zeizelbach, Füllhof, Neideck and Lanzweiler.

In the 9th century, likely not long before 870, the noble lord Hererich was enfeoffed with the Eßweiler Tal and shortly before his death, he bequeathed it to Prüm Abbey.

The founders transferred the small monastery at Offenbach together with the holdings that they had bequeathed to it to Saint Vincent's Abbey in Metz.

From a document made out about 1200, the reader gathers that Emmerich von Löwenstein received from the Counts of Zweibrücken as a fief for service rendered one third of the tithes at Aschbach.

The Waldgraves and Rhinegraves of Kyrburg,[6] as holders of high jurisdiction, were overlords to the Lords of Mühlenstein (later Cratz von Scharfenstein) at the Hirsauer Kirche and at the Springeburg (castle).

Indeed, in the 14th century, as witnessed by a 1393 Veldenz letter of bestowal, the two villages of Oberaschbach and Unteraschbach belonged to this Amt of Nerzweiler.

[7] Count Friedrich III of Veldenz bequeathed the Amt to his wife, Margarethe von Nassau-Saarbrücken, to provide for her in case of widowhood (an arrangement called a Wittum).

Having a great number of feudal lords obviously led to greater freedoms than in other regions, where unified power and governmental structures prevailed.

Questions of law were governed in the Eßweiler Tal by a series of Weistümer (singular: Weistum; cognate with English wisdom, this was a legal pronouncement issued by men learned in law in the Middle Ages and early modern times) that were already in force in the Middle Ages, although only in the early 16th century were they put into writing.

With regard to manorial relations, there was a change due to this situation in 1595 that saw high jurisdiction, hitherto held by the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves for some 250 years, transferred to the Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken.

In return for this, Count Palatine Johannes I of Zweibrücken let the Rhinegraves have the village of Kirchenbollenbach near (and now a constituent community of) Idar-Oberstein.

[9] Aschbach thereby remained under Rhinegravial rule until the old feudal order was swept away in the events of the French Revolution.

Roughly, the river Glan formed the boundary between the Departments of Sarre and Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German).

Aschbach was grouped, along with the villages of Nerzweiler, Hinzweiler, Hachenbach and Gumbsweiler, into the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Hundheim.

The village's people earned their livelihood mainly from agriculture, although those who wished could seek work at one of the many coal, quicksilver, baryte and chalk mines both right nearby and a bit farther afield.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, some of the village's inhabitants travelled the world as Wandermusikanten, performing music in many different countries.

Among the most famous was Rudolf Mersy, who was known as the Aschbacher Mozart (for more information, see the West Palatine travelling music tradition (Musikantentum) and the two relevant sections of the Hinzweiler article).

In a 1743 statistical work, of 19 “family fathers” – household heads – 17 were said to be free subjects and 2 were Hintersassen (roughly, “dependent peasants”).

Both lay northeast of today's village of Aschbach and were likewise both mentioned in Johannes Hofmann's 1595 description of the Eßweiler Tal.

[16] Originally, the Hirsauer Kirche, a church near Hundheim (pictured in the Offenbach-Hundheim article), was the ecclesiastical hub for all the villages in the Eßweiler Tal.

As early as 1526, the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken introduced the Reformation into the church of the Oberamt of Meisenheim, replacing Catholic belief with Martin Luther’s teachings so that bit by bit, church services in the Eßweiler Tal, too, began to be conducted in accordance with the Reformation.

After the Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken had become the sovereign feudal lords over the Eßweiler Tal in 1595, believers had to conform with the current religious developments in the County Palatine, and thus converted, following the precept of cuius regio, eius religio, to John Calvin’s Reformed teachings.

After the Thirty Years' War had ended, Hinzweiler had managed to make itself “mother church” to the whole dale, a state of affairs unchanged to this day.

[20] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[21] The municipality celebrates its kermis (church consecration festival) on the second weekend in September.

[24] The educational establishment experienced a general upswing beginning in the time of the Reformation, but this ended with the Thirty Years' War.