Becherbach bei Kirn is situated on the Großbach in the North Palatine Uplands between the Nahe and the Glan.

Unearthed within Becherbach's limits have been archaeological finds bearing witness to a settlement here during Roman times.

This Amt of Naumburg was ceded by the Raugraves, a sideline of the Waldgraves, to the Counts of Sponheim-Kreuznach, first half of it in 1349, and then the whole towards the end of the 14th century.

The Amt administrative seat was Castle Naumburg near Bärenbach, which had its first documentary mention, along with its owner, Raugrave Emich, in 1146.

Economically, the inhabitants of the Amt of Naumburg turned towards Kirn, where, as witnessed by a record from 1579, they had to pay an “oat toll” (Zollhafer) just to get into the market.

Becherbach temporarily lost its function as an Amt seat and as of 1801 or 1802 belonged to the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Schmidthachenbach.

Becherbach now once again became a local seat of an Amt mayoralty as a so-called Oberschultheißerei in the Hesse-Homburg Oberamt of Meisenheim.

After the House of Hesse-Homburg died out, the landgraviate passed in 1866 by inheritance first to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, but then only half a year later ultimately to Prussia.

With the formation of the Prussian district of Meisenheim in 1869, the Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Becherbach was enlarged with the addition of Hoppstädten and Hundsbach, which remained therein until 1940.

Each of the Schutzjuden had to pay each year ten Rhenish guilders in Schutzgeld (literally “protection money”) to the lordly landholders.

In the Great Fire of Becherbach on 9 September 1854, 29 houses and 54 separate commercial buildings were destroyed, and others were damaged.

In the earlier half of the 19th century – indeed until about 1870 – the following ten Jewish families are known from civil registry documents and the municipal books to have lived in Becherbach: In the way of institutions, the Jews had a “prayer parlour” (see below) and a graveyard.

16 May 1890 in Becherbach [or in Meisenheim, having lived until 1914 in Kirn] as salesman Isidor Moritz's and his wife Regina's [née Wendel] son, d. 20 June 1916).

According to the Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under National Socialist Tyranny") and Yad Vashem, of all Jews who either were born in Becherbach or lived there for a long time, three were killed during Nazi persecution (birthdates in brackets): The name Becherbach may derive from the Middle High German bechaere and may be linked with the production of pitch (Pech in German) or charcoal.

[10] The Jewish families in Becherbach bei Kirn established not so much a synagogue as a Betstube (“praying parlour”).

[1] The German blazon reads: Über blau-gold geschachtem Schildfuß in Rot eine silberne Hauswand mit 6 durch Bogen verbundenen Säulen über einem Sockel, der in der Breite von 3 Bogen von einer Treppe durchbrochen ist.

After consent by the state archive, the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz granted approval for Becherbach to bear its own arms on 29 December 1965.

[15] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[16] When the Jewish graveyard in Becherbach bei Kirn was laid out is unknown.