In the Middle Ages, Bollenbach was made up of two parts, the Hochgericht (“High Court”) and the Ingericht, which belonged respectively to the two lordly houses of Schmidtburg and Wildenburg.

The villagers earned their livelihood not only from farming small plots, but also, as late as the 1960s, by mining slate at six pits.

[1] The German blazon reads: In geteiltem Schild oben in Gold ein rotes Fabeltier mit einem Wolfskopf und weit geöffneten Schwingen belegt mit einem schwarzen Wolfshaken.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess Or a beast with a wolf's head and an eagle's body displayed gules, its breast surmounted by a crampon palewise sable, and vert three trees of the first.

[5] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[6] The Gemeinschaftsmühle had one of the first electric gristmills in the Hunsrück.