The municipality lies in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald (forest) in the Hunsrück some 3 km southwest of the district seat of Birkenfeld.

In the latter half of the 1st century BC, the area was conquered by the Romans and remained under their hegemony for roughly 400 years.

[1] The German blazon reads: In durch schwarzen Pfahl gespaltenem Schild vorne in Silber über blauem, schräglinkem Wellenbalken ein schwarzes Wasserrad, hinten der Hunolstein’sche Schild: in Gold zwei rote Balken begleitet von 12 (5:4:2:1) roten Steinen, halb.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: An endorse sable between, dimidiated, argent a bend sinister wavy with a waterwheel spoked of six in dexter chief of the first, and the Hunolstein escutcheon: Or two closets among twelve cubes, five in fess in chief, four in fess between and three in base, all gules.

The pattern on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side refers to the former holders of the Vogtei of Achtelsbach, to which Dambach belonged.