Hüffelsheim lies on a high plateau at an elevation of roughly 220 meters ("m") above sea level above the River Nahe at the Naturpark Soonwald-Nahe.

[3] Clockwise from the north, Hüffelsheim's neighbours are the municipality of Rüdesheim an der Nahe, the town of Bad Kreuznach and the municipalities of Traisen, Norheim, Niederhausen, Schloßböckelheim and Weinsheim, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

As long ago as 800, the first Christian church arose on noble property, which was consecrated to Saint Lambert of Maastricht.

About 1200, the village belonged as an Imperial fief to the Rhinegrave of Stein, although he in turn enfeoffed various knightly families with his own landhold.

On into the 18th century, the Families Boos von Waldeck and Sickingen exercised their rights in Hüffelsheim that had come down to them from the Middle Ages.

When the French Revolutionary troops came about 1796, however, the time of nobles and lords, even the Barons Boos von Waldeck, came to an end.

On 13 August 1913, the King of Prussia – who was also the Emperor of Germany – Kaiser Wilhelm II visited Hüffelsheim.

[6] In the Second World War, the great bell from the Hüffelsheim church was seized by the authorities and met a more than usually unkind fate.

It was one of the two bells from the church at Powunden near Königsberg in East Prussia, although even by this time, as a result of shifts in borders in the wake of the war, this place was already known as Khrabrovo (and the nearby city as Kaliningrad).

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[10] Hüffelsheim's mayor is Jochen Fiscus, and his deputies are Uwe Weidmann and Ernst-Walter Thomas.

The charges borne in the arms refer to Hüffelsheim's only local legend, the one that tells of the drink from the boot.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[14] The Jewish graveyard in Hüffelsheim was laid out about 1820.

The oldest datable stone is from 1837 (Breinele, daughter of Jizchak from Altenbamberg), while the newest is from 1928 (Selma Strauss née Grünewald, died on 23 October 1928).

The way to the graveyard leads from Hüffelsheim some 2 km towards Niederhausen, then to the right at the edge of the woods and another kilometre up the mountainside.

However one goes there, though, one is greeted by a sign on the gate (which itself is hard to spot from the path through all the bushes), which says Betreten verboten – Schlüssel beim Bürgermeister (“entry forbidden – key with the mayor”).

There is, for example, each year on the weekend of the last Sunday in July, a traditional kermis (church consecration festival), put on by various clubs.

[17] Other regular events include the following: Today roughly 1,400 people make their homes in Hüffelsheim.