Büchenbeuren is a state-recognized tourism municipality (Fremdenverkehrsort), and according to state planning, is laid out as a lower centre.

Büchenbeuren belonged until the end of the Middle Ages to the landholdings under the lordship of the Counts of Sponheim.

Beginning in 1796, Büchenbeuren, like all lands on the Rhine’s left bank, belonged directly to France, although French administration here only became fully functional in 1798.

Kirchberg became the seat of a canton, and Büchenbeuren belonged, along with Altlay, Bärenbach, Belg, Lautzenhausen, Niederweiler and Wahlenau to the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Sohren.

In 1814, French rule in the Hunsrück ended, and Büchenbeuren, along with the rest of the Hunsrück was made part of the Zentralverwaltungsdepartement (“Central Administration Department”) of Mittelrhein on 2 February 1814, and then on 16 June of that same year, part of the Zentralverwaltungsdepartement of Nieder- und Mittelrhein under Johann August Sack, a high Prussian official.

Only in the mid 19th century was the Gemeinde-Ordnung für den Preußischen Staat (“Municipal Order for the Prussian State”) introduced.

On 7 March 1936, after the Nazis had seized power on 30 January 1933, German troops occupied the Rhineland.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[5] Büchenbeuren’s mayor is Guido Scherer.

From Büchenbeuren, buses run to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, Idar-Oberstein, Kirn, Bingen am Rhein and Simmern.

The outlying centre of Scheid has been since 1996 home to the Landespolizeischule Rheinland-Pfalz (“Rhineland-Palatinate State Police College”).

Büchenbeuren has a firefighting post that together with the one in nearby Sohren forms the local fire brigade.