The quarrying leaves typical traces on the land, such as loss of surface vegetation, unsightliness, and recultivation perceived as inadequate, which have been publicly controversial for years in Guckheim.

In the past, there has also been limited brown coal mining (first mentioned in documents in 1746, lasted until 1847) and basalt quarrying (until 1928).

Old names for Guckheim, such as Cochem, Gocheim and the local dialectal form still heard today, Guggem, point to this time.

Often, placenames refer to the first settler in the place, which in this instance might have brought a coc, coch, goch, guco, gogo into the name.

German placenames that end in —heim or —em most often began as single homesteads (Heim is still German for "home" today, and is cognate with the English word), whereas places whose names end in —dorf ("village"; the word is cognate with the English "thorpe") refer to groups of these homesteads.

Under the forerunner building's foundation a layer of clay potsherds about 5 cm thick and about 4 or 5 m2 in area was found, which according to investigations came from about AD 1000.

Wörsdorf's first documentary mention from 25 September 1285 indicates that the abbot of the St. Pantaleon Monastery in Cologne of the Order of Saint Benedict, as the "Conservator of the Teutonic Knights’ privilege" appointed by the Pope, "complains about Count Otto of Nassau and his son Heinrich as well as their helper Heinrich of Wörsdorf to pronounce excommunication against those named after an earlier admonition".

Widow of the knight Heinrich of Sottenbach, donates all her movable (bona mea mobilia, utensilia affernalia) and immovable property in the villages and rural areas of Stenbach (Steinbach), Dorringdorf (Dorndorf) Hausen, Vridekobin (Frickhofen), Gocheim (Guckheim) and Wermolderode (Willmenrod) at farms, houses, estates, gardens, meadows, grazing lands, forests, fisheries, tax income or other to the abbess and the convent of the nuns in Gnadenthal (in valle gracie) for the healing of her soul, and her parents’, and all her forebears’ before the Schultheißen (roughly, "sheriffs"), Schöffen (local justices) and other villagers and transfers the goods to the convent to its procurator's hands as property.

19 kalendas Januarii" In the Annals of Nassau (Nassauische Annalen) is found the following record: "In 1299 Gocheim, the von Piesports had an estate in 1735.

On 27 July 1564, Guckheim, along with the parishes of Salz, Meudt, Nentershausen and Hundsangen was ceded to the Electorate of Trier in the Treaty of Diez, and thereby also ended up in the Amt of Montabaur.

In Wörsdorf, the names Kiep, Schumacher, Born, New (Neu), Fritz, Zeis, Göbel and Fasel can be confirmed from that time.

Stories handed down by word of mouth tell of inhabitants being tortured during the war years in the constituent community of Guckheim opposite the village cross.

Once Matthias Fasel, a teacher from Wörsdorf, was appointed, instruction began in 1820 in a schoolroom rented by the community at the so-called Perersch Haus.

On the Duchy of Nassau government's instructions, Matthias Fasel began the Guckheim school chronicle.

In 1589, 7 Electoral service personnel and one Vogtmann (roughly, "reeve") were mentioned in a record also including both communities’ inhabitants.

[7] In the late 1950s, the seating room in the Mother of God Chapel was becoming less and less adequate to serve the growing community's needs.

Given this, plans were made with the architect Hans Busch from Frankfurt am Main, who was well known for his sacral buildings, to enlarge the chapel and add a new belltower.

The one-naved church room with gallery is girded with thick walls made out of quarried basalt, a typical local building material.

Lying roughly 35 km east of Koblenz, halfway between the agglomerations of Frankfurt am Main and Cologne, Guckheim has at its disposal a good transport infrastructure with the new InterCityExpress stations in Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn, the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt; interchange at Diez/Nentershausen) and Bundesstraßen 8 and 255, all found nearby.

Worthy of special mention are the nature trail for forestry and ornithology on the Rothenberg and the nearby ruins of the Weltersburg (castle), built after 1100, both of which can easily be reached on foot from Guckheim.

Furthermore, lying roughly 10 km away, between Pottum und Stahlhofen is the Wiesensee (lake) and its accompanying recreation area.

About 750 m from Guckheim, an 11-km-long, popular hiking trail leads from the direction of Wallmerod to the former railway area in Westerburg.

The trail, which is also used by cyclists and skaters, is to be extended in the next few years by 10 to 20 km towards Höhn/Rennerod across the railway bridge, a protected monument, in Westerburg.