Frei-Laubersheim lies, like Fürfeld and Neu-Bamberg, in the Rheinhessische Schweiz – Rhenish-Hessian Switzerland – a recreational region.

The village lies roughly 7 km from the gates of the spa town and district seat of Bad Kreuznach and is framed by some 125 ha of vineyards and 313 ha of wooded land bordering on Bad Kreuznach's municipal forest at Forsthaus (“forester’s house”) Spreitel.

Clockwise from the north, Frei-Laubersheim's neighbours are the municipalities of Hackenheim, Volxheim, Wöllstein, Neu-Bamberg, Fürfeld and Altenbamberg and the town of Bad Kreuznach.

Also belonging to Frei-Laubersheim are the outlying homesteads of Am Bahnhof Laubersheim, Hof bei der Römerstraße, Johanneshof, Lindenhof and Rheingrafenhof.

It is believed to date from about the 6th century AD, and it represents proof that the Frei-Laubersheim area was settled in those days.

Among these very early on, besides Lorsch, was Prüm Abbey in the Eifel, which in an 823 exchange agreement acquired, besides holdings in Grolsheim, Horrweiler and Stein-Bockenheim, also property within Frei-Laubersheim's limits.

The monastery further owned an estate whose building complex is still preserved today and is mainly found within the Görtz property.

According to the official description of the Amt of Kreuznach from the former “Further” County of Sponheim, in 1601, Frei-Laubersheim was a big village with 92 households or hearths.

As they did throughout Rhenish Hesse in the time of French Revolutionary rule, liberty poles, tricolour cockades and red Phrygian caps held their place in Frei-Laubersheim's everyday life.

Thus was the situation after the French Revolutionary troops’ arrival in 1797 described by Pastor Fritsch, who worked as the Evangelical clergyman in Frei-Laubersheim from 1899 to 1934.

In 1813 and 1814, part of the beaten Napoleonic army came through Frei-Laubersheim on its retreat, bringing with them Lazarettfieber (literally “field hospital fever” – this was a general term for any of a number of sicknesses, including gangrene, pyaemia, shingles and typhus), and this claimed 57 lives.

Quite possibly, in connection with the Revolutions of 1848, things such as freedom, constitution and parliament were already being hotly debated, but at the same time, one of the leading minds of the Freischärler ("irregulars") movement was living with the Frei-Laubersheim Evangelical clergyman, Pastor Matty.

The distinctive prefix “Frei-” was quite likely only added in 1261 on the occasion of the bestowing of church patronage rights on Tholey Abbey by the Chancellery of the Archbishop of Mainz, Werner.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[9] “WG” means Wählergruppe – “voters’ group”.

The “chequy” field on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the Counts of Sponheim.

The charge on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side is also a reference to former lords, in this case Electoral Palatinate.

The other charge, in base, is the Frei-Laubersheim fibula (brooch), found in the municipality in 1872 and not only a symbol but also proof that the Franks were living in the area very early on.