Its elevation is roughly 145 m above sea level and it lies some 7 km from the district seat, Bad Kreuznach.

Gutenberg is distinguished by the consistency of its weather, low rainfall averaging only 480 mm yearly and many sunny days.

[3] Clockwise from the north, Gutenberg's neighbours are the municipalities of Windesheim, Guldental, Hargesheim, Roxheim and Wallhausen, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

[4] Not much can be brought to light about the Gutenberg area's earliest settlers, who were nomads – hunter-gatherers – of the Old Stone Age, and they did not leave much behind for archaeologists to find.

In the 1960s, however, a man named Kurt Hochgesand from Waldalgesheim discovered articles from several epochs of the Stone Age in the fields near the Butterberg.

In an engraving by Sebastian Furck, published in 1630 in Daniel Meisner and Eberhard Kieser's Thesaurus Philopoliticus, appears a stone coffin similar to those unearthed at the Roman graveyard in Bad Kreuznach near today's Bosenheimerstraße.

An inscription on the engraving reads "Ist alda mit einem cörper und zwei gläsern darin ein unbekannts materia auch vier schüßlin ausgegraben worden" ("Was dug up there with a body and two glasses therein an unknown material also four dishes").

Phillip Stieb IV discovered on his field "im Bauernstück", likely while he was doing clearing work, two stone chests.

Found inside were urns, bottles, small clay lamps, coins and rings from the 1st century AD.

In 1925 the well known local historian Karl Geib undertook an investigation in his field, for which he turned to people who were interested in the subject.

With the help of his answers on the prepared questionnaire it came to light that many archaeological finds from prehistoric and Roman times had been destroyed through people's ignorance.

In 1967, Karl Hochgesand made an interesting discovery on the Butterberg near the Roman road: During clearing work, a plough had struck some stone chests and had destroyed them.

Who actually lived in the village in Roman times may well never be known with certainty, but these archaeological finds leave no doubt that this place was indeed inhabited then.

On 22 May of that year, Archbishop of Mainz Arnold confirmed to the convent of Ruppertsberg near Bingen its land holdings as they were donated by individual persons.

Archbishop Cunrad of Mainz, a papal legate, freed the convent from taxes and furnished it with specific rights.

It bears the title Registratio rerum et censum[check spelling] monasterii S. Rupperti ab anno 1147 usque 1270 and comprehensively lists all the convent's land holdings.

These cadastral names appear on modern maps within Gutenberg's limits, in modified or even the same forms as they had in the 13th century.

[7] In 1213, Eberbach Abbey, then an important monastery near Eltville, found itself at odds with Bertha and her brother Rheinbodo of Bingen.

Thereafter, a monk from the Breitenvahs Monastery (now Guldental's outlying homestead of Breitenfelser Hof) was supposed to hand over 10 pounds in denarii to the siblings from Bingen at Castle Weithersheim.

In 1248, a woman named Agnes von Gudenburg cropped up in a document as Wolfram vom Stein the Younger's wife.

In 1334, Eberhard sold Castle Gutenburg and the village of Weithersheim to Johann, with "people, lands, fields and all appurtenances".

The document speaks of gatehouses, stables, an outer bailey with towers and a well, which can all still vaguely be made out today.

Not even Meinhard von Koppenstein, who according to a document from the same year was Amtmann of Kreuznach, was supposed to govern the castle for the counts.

The castle continued to be owned by the Margraves, the Palatinate-Simmerns and the Counts Palatine until the Rhineland was overrun by French Revolutionary troops in the late 18th century.

The respective shares held by each of the counts' successors to the "Further" County of Sponheim, to which the castle at Gutenberg also belonged, were constantly changing.

In 1838, Gutenberg's castle was bought by the Kreuznach court clerk Meyer, who proceeded to build it "in an old-fashioned style into the most attractive point in the dale".

[14] Gutenberg's mayor is Jürgen Frank, and his deputies are Christa Dapper, Rosi Stief and Walter Kluge.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments:[18] Gutenberg holds a tent kermis (church consecration festival) each year on the second weekend in September.

[22] The local bus route serves Bad Kreuznach station, making the rail service there available to those living in Gutenberg.