This hill castle was first laid out as a lightly fortified settlement on the heights and only later given strong walls.

[4] As a result of the exploratory digs, the Altburg has been partly restored to its form in the 1st century BC, and has been expanded into a unique, protohistoric open-air museum.

Mentioned much nearer the presumed founding date, however, was the Schmidtburg, the Waldgraves’ ancestral seat in the Hahnenbach valley.

The first slate mining lease agreement is witnessed on Saint Walpurga’s Day 1519: The Lords of Wiltberg leased their “Laienkaul unden an Prorschitt uff der Bach gelegen” (“Laienkaul down below at Bruschied, lying on the brook”) for four years to, among others, the two Bundenbach residents Peter and Niklas Huppen.

Another mine, the Herrenberg slate pit near the Altburg and opposite the Schmidtburg, first mentioned in 1822, ceased operations in 1964.

Eleven years later, a private initiative by Bundenbach residents was begun to open this mine as a tourist attraction.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[7] Bundenbach's mayor is Verena Mächtel.

The red cross on the sinister (armsbearer’s left, viewer’s right) side is a reference to the village’s former allegiance to the Electorate of Trier.

[8] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[9] Worth seeing are the mediaeval castle ruin, the Schmidtburg (the biggest Rhenish castle complex), the Herrenberg slate pit (since 1976 open to visitors as an attraction), the fossil museum, the Altburg Celtic heights settlement from La Tène times and the Hahnenbach valley, which has no road traffic.