[3] Börsborn lies on the southeast slope of the 400 m-high Steinberg some 300 to 340 m above sea level in the Western Palatinate.

Near this intersection, where the oldest built-up area is to be found, stands the belltower endowed by Countess Marianne von der Leyen.

The building in the village's core is still characterized by the Einfirsthaus – literally “house with one roof ridge” – a style of farmhouse typical of the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France.

There is even an outstanding example of such a building in a homestead in which the stables and the barn are divided from the house in an arrangement called a Dreiseithof (“three-sided estate”).

[5] Even in prehistoric times, the area where Börsborn is now found was occupied by mankind, bearing witness to which are various archaeological finds made within municipal limits.

Another barrow, which belongs to a group of graves near Steinbach, lies in the west of Börsborn's municipal area.

[6] From the contiguous Free Imperial Domain around Castle Lautern, Frankish kings split certain areas off to donate them to ecclesiastical and secular lordships.

Werner furnished this monastery richly with estates and landholds, including the Münchweiler Tal (dale), in which Börsborn lies.

The Hornbach Monastery enfeoffed various vassals with the dale (with Glan-Münchweiler as the main village), first the Raugraves in the Nahegau in 1323, then the Archbishop of Trier and in 1338 the Lords of Breidenborn.

At the same time, Abbot Ulrich of the Hornbach Monastery granted Jörge von der Leyen, a Burgmann at Castle Lautern, the Münchweiler Tal.

Besides the House of Leyen, their kin, the Mauchenheims, were also enfeoffed in turn with shares of the monastery's holdings in the Münchweiler Tal.

Only in 1773 did the comital couple, Franz Karl von der Leyen and Marianne, née Dalberg, move their residence from Koblenz to Blieskastel.

After Count Franz Karl's death in 1775, his beloved wife Marianne took over the regency for their not yet grown son Philipp.

The countess managed to flee during the occupation of Blieskastel by French Revolutionary troops and sought refuge first in Koblenz with the local people's support, and later in Frankfurt.

Under French rule after 1801, Börsborn lay in the Department of Sarre, whose seat was at Trier, in the Arrondissement of Saarbrücken, in the Canton of Waldmohr and in the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Glan-Münchweiler.

After the First World War, the district of Homburg was assigned to the British- and French-ruled Saar, but the Canton of Waldmohr stayed with the newly formed Free State of Bavaria, and thereby with Germany.

They played an important role foremost in livestock trading, even after the French Revolution had put them on a like legal footing with Christians.

Found among Börsborn's inhabitants today are people of the most varied of occupations, and most must commute to jobs outside the village.

The great number of newcomers that arrived after the war can be traced to ethnic Germans driven out of Germany's former eastern territories.

The following table shows population development over the centuries for Börsborn, with some figures broken down by religious denomination:[10] The placename ending —born, cognate with the English “bourne” (although without quite the same meaning), most likely means the springs found around the village (the Modern High German word for one of these is Brunnen).

In the time of the Reformation, Börsborn, like all other villages in the Münchweiler Tal, had to embrace Martin Luther’s teachings, on the feudal lord’s orders, although it is worth noting that in religious matters, the lordship of the House of Leyen at first for the most part followed whatever the Duchy of Palatine Zweibrücken chose to do.

[1] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess abased argent an oaktree eradicated and fructed vert and azure a pale of the first.

The pale (vertical stripe) in the lower half of the escutcheon is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the House of Leyen.

The Catholic sector of the population especially mounted successful opposition to the official efforts with regard to Father Kaufhold's endowment.