The municipality lies in the Palatinate Forest at the forks of the Speyerbach and the Hochspeyerbach.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: A pall reversed wavy azure, dexter gules an axe palewise of the first helved Or, the head to chief and the edge to sinister, sinister gules a forester’s bill palewise of the first helved of the third, the head to chief and the hook to dexter, in base argent issuant from base a vat of the second hooped of the first with contents of the field, surmounted by a stirring sieve palewise of the second issuant from base, the handle to base.

The arms were approved in 1951 by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior, and they go back to a court seal from 1733.

The railway runs on a line between Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Elmstein.

TV Frankeneck (sport club) offers football and gymnastics.