The village sits at an elevation of roughly 280 m above sea level in a hollow on the banks of the Rötelbach at the edge of a plateau.

[5] While it is assumed that the area around the village was already settled in prehistoric times, there are no archaeological finds bearing witness to this.

[6] In this vicinity, too, it is likely that a village known as Guckenhausen later lay, although it is not thought that this represents a continuity in settlement from Roman times to the Early Middle Ages.

From a judicial point of view, Buborn lay within the jurisdiction of the Hochgericht auf der Heide (“High Court on the Heath”).

Records tell of a knight named Albert from the Nahegau, who in the early 12th century unrightfully took ownership of the Remigiusberg (a mountain with a like-named monastery).

Later, though, after the monks had bought the mountain back, Albert himself took orders at the newly founded monastery there, and, among other things, bequeathed two estates in Buhrbur to it.

In 1319, the Waldgraves of Kyrburg raised a claim to the jurisdiction in Buborn, which also stretched out to the surrounding villages.

No sooner had Buborn ended up in the Waldgraves’ hands than a whole series of surrounding villages subject to the Hochgericht auf der Heide were pledged by Johann von Dhaun to the County of Sponheim-Starkenburg.

In 1515, Buborn was firmly in this county's hands, and the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves of Grumbach thereby also held the jurisdiction.

From this year comes a Weistum that states that both jurisdiction (that is, the court's power) and the lordship were held not by Kyrburg, but rather by Grombach (a Weistum – cognate with English wisdom – was a legal pronouncement issued by men learned in law in the Middle Ages and early modern times).

The village's mediaeval history, just like neighbouring Herren-Sulzbach’s and the Schönborner Hof’s, is tightly bound with the Knights of Saint John.

[9] During the time of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era that followed, the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank were annexed by France.

Within Prussia's Rhine Province, it formed the district of Sankt Wendel, which was in turn divided into several Ämter.

Later, after the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles stipulated, among other things, that 26 of the Sankt Wendel district's 94 municipalities had to be ceded to the British- and French-occupied Saar.

After the Second World War, the village at first lay within the Regierungsbezirk of Koblenz in the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The name's form underwent a number of changes in older documents: Buhrbur (1127), Buppura (1152 and 1154), Potbor (1315), Butbure (1351), Boppren (1459), and in the local speech Buwere.

The first syllable is drawn from a personal name, “Burdo” or “Burto”, while the placename ending, although resembling the common placename ending —born, apparently does not mean “spring”, but rather “house” or “dwelling” (the root still appears in the German word Vogelbauer, meaning “birdcage”, and it even has a cognate in English: “bower”[12]).

In 1556, the Reformation was introduced into Buborn, and then, that same year, the Knights, under their Grand Master, Prince Georg von Schilling, first pledged the greater part of their holdings to the Lordship of the Grumbachs under Rhinegrave Philipp Franz.

In the early 17th century, the Grumbachs gained full ownership of these pledged holdings and paid a price of 3,200 Gulden.

Although the Knights of Saint John kept up their presence in the domains of the Evangelical Church, they could no longer hold their own in Herren-Sulzbach.

The lion charge on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side is an heraldic device formerly borne by the village's mediaeval lords, the Waldgraves.

[18] Buborn’s kermis (church consecration festival) is held each year on the third weekend in July.

[21] As in all the other villages in the Amt of Grumbach, there likewise arose in Buborn in the late 16th century, owing to the effect of the Reformation, efforts to teach children to read and write.

On this schoolhouse hung a bell with the inscription “Wer mich nimmt verliert” (“He who takes me loses”).