Part of the Neuhof municipality, it is 17 km southwest of Fulda and ca.

Hauswurz is located on the upper course of the stream Kemmete (which flows east from the nearby Vogelsberg Mountains) between Weidenau (in the Freiensteinau municipality, to the west) and Rommerz (in Neuhof, to the east).

To the north is Brandlos, the southernmost village of the neighboring municipality Hosenfeld.

[4] An early 20th-century plan to connect Hauswurz to Fulda via narrow-gauge railway was aborted.

[5] While neighboring cities and villages were hit by bombs from Allied planes during World War II, Hauswurz was one of only two villages in the area where military engagement with American troops led to extensive destruction.