Gollenberg borders in the south on Birkenfeld, and Ellenberg, in the west on Rinzenberg and in the north on Oberhambach.

On 1 April 1937, under the Greater Hamburg Act, the old principality was absorbed into Prussia, which was still a distinct entity during the Third Reich.

The combat vehicle drivers who already found themselves in the village, simply drove up to the houses to take cover.

This resulted in a 20-minute-long fighter-bomber attack in which eight Allied aircraft dived at their targets, both dropping bombs and firing their on-board weapons.

[4] Gollenberg’s mayor is Ralf Simon, and his deputies are Holger Sander and Karin Fetzer Fuchs.

[5] The German blazon reads: In schräglinks geteiltem Schild vorne rot-silbern geschacht, hinten ein goldener Dreiberg in Grün.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per bend sinister chequy gules and argent, and vert issuant from base a mount of three Or.

The "chequy" pattern on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the "Hinder" County of Sponheim, while the gold "mount of three" (hill with three knolls) on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side – a charge known in German heraldry as a Dreiberg – is a canting charge referring to the municipality's name in its former forms of Goldenberg ("Golden Mountain") and the like.

Gollenberg is linked to the railway network by the station at Neubrücke, an outlying centre of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach.