Within Brücken's limits, on the Friedrichskopf, rises the Allbach, whose upper reaches bear the name Königsbach.

Dating from as early as the late Bronze Age in the 1st millennium BC, the so-called New Hallstatt times, are some potsherds and parts of metal torcs found near what is now Brücken, which suggests that there was a settlement along the Middle Traunbach at the time.

Traunen always belonged to the Pflege (literally “care”, but actually a local geopolitical unit) of Achtelsbach and was until its amalgamation with Brücken in 1934 a self-administering municipality.

The village of Brücken could not have been very big, for a 1437 compilation for the County of Sponheim listed only two people there who were subject to taxation.

The Thirty Years' War took a heavy toll on Brücken, as it did elsewhere in Germany, reducing the population, bringing the economy to a halt and tearing great gaps in all aspects of life.

Reasons for this could be seen in improvements to agriculture and forestry, the distribution of former lordly and communally held lands to the peasants and also in an emerging handicraft industry.

Having a great number of children, as many local families did in the 18th and 19th centuries, was not always a blessing, bringing along with it economic and, not least of all, social problems.

Germany's new industrialization needed a workforce, while settlers were what was wanted in North and South America and Eastern Europe.

The most recent decades have brought considerable economic and technical advancement in all areas of life.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[6] Brücken's mayor is Marc Arend.

[1] Since 1946, there have only been four mayors:[7] The German blazon reads: Unter dreifach eingebogenem goldenem Schildhaupt schräglinks geteilter Schild, vorne rot-silbernes Schach, hinten in Schwarz ein wachsender rotbewehrter, -gezungter und -gekrönter goldener Löwe.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Under a chief engrailed of three Or party per bend sinister chequy of gules and argent and sable issuant from base sinister a demilion of the first armed, langued and crowned of the second.

The charges in the two fields below are references to Brücken's and Traunen's former allegiances to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, represented by the “chequy” pattern on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side, and the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, represented by the demilion on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side, respectively.

[8] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[9] Each year, two village festivals are held in Brücken.

The Frühlingsfest (“Spring Festival”), attended mostly by local people, and the Glockenkirmes (“Bell Fair”), which attracts visitors from outside the municipality.