The municipality lies in the Kusel Musikantenland (“Minstrels’ Land”) in the Western Palatinate on the river Glan.

The mountains that edge the valley reach elevations of about 400 m above from the sea level (Sulzberg 402 m, Hohenestel with cabin and lookout tower 399 m, Bächelskopf 357 m).

In the expansions before the Second World War down the valley and back from the river towards the mountains, a mixture of building forms arose.

Village renewal and property boundary rationalization (a kind of Flurbereinigung called Ortslagenflurbereinigung) were also undertaken to promote tourism.

Bedesbach has several times been the district-level winner in the contest Unser Dorf soll schöner werden (“Our village should become lovelier”).

[6] The village itself was founded in the Early Middle Ages, some 500 years before the thus far earliest known documentary mention in a 1364 document.

She was married to Count Palatine Stephan, who took his wife's inheritance and combined it with his own holdings to form a new state, which in time came to be known as the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.

In the late 17th century, there were once more great losses, this time due to King Louis XIV's wars of conquest.

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic times from 1801 to 1814, Bedesbach lay within the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German), in the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern and in the Canton of Wolfstein.

[8] During this 1968 reform, Bedesbach, which in the meantime had grown into a considerable tourism resort, had to fight hard to keep its autonomy.

According to the so-called 1609 Konken Protocols (Konker Protokolle), eleven families with 51 people were living in the village at that time.

The population figures themselves, though, kept rising, almost continuously as a result of the favourable location for living and transport, but also because of particular efforts by the villagers to improve their own economic structure.

[12] Bedesbach lay in the Remigiusland, and thereby belonged from the time of its founding to the Church of Reims, although under ecclesiastical organization, it was assigned to the Archbishopric of Mainz.

The municipality of Bedesbach belonged in the Middle Ages to the County of Veldenz and later passed to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, with which it remained until the French Revolution.

The wavy blue bend sinister (slanted stripe) is a canting charge referring to the last syllable in the municipality's name, —bach, which in German means “brook”.

Since Bedesbach also lay in the old Remigiusland, the dove with the olive sprig, Saint Remigius’s attribute, has been incorporated into the arms as a charge.

[16] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[17] The former schoolhouse was renovated in 2002 and now serves as the village community centre.

[18] The old smithy houses a museum that displays the original blacksmithing equipment and keeps the memory of old crafts alive.

As in many places in the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France, there were also collieries in Bedesbach.

Near the limit with Ulmet, as early as 1773, a substantial coal seam was discovered at the Hellerberg (mountain) by a farmer, which the Zweibrücken Chief Mountain Director (Oberbergdirektor) Stahl later had exploited, an endeavour at which over the years Stahl himself and the Duke of Zweibrücken (for his private estate) made a profit of more than 10,000 Gulden.

The attempt to further tourism by furnishing lodgings, putting together an adequate dining sector, creating local facilities and laying out hiking trails was enjoying success even decades ago.

[21] Among major enterprises in Bedesbach, the “Baumrech” hard-stone quarry is still in business today, having been opened in 1919 by Eiserfelder Steinwerke.

After 1920, the quarry employed for a time 80 workers and daily made from 300 to 400 metric tons of crushed stone.

In the time when the Siegfried Line was being built, the quarry managed to raise its general output considerably.