The municipality lies in the Western Palatinate west of Lauterecken at an elevation of about 300 m above sea level on a brook called the Sulzbach, which rises within municipal limits and then flows less than a kilometre down to the Grumbach, which is also known hereabouts as the Rüllbach.

The church with its Romanesque building elements stands in the hollow at the village’s upper end.

The graveyard lies on the right side of the road that links the village with the Grumbach valley and Bundesstraße 270.

The church that stands today holds clues in the oldest parts of its building that it must originally have been built about one thousand years ago.

Whatever the truth is, in 1290, the Herren-Sulzbach church passed into the ownership of the Order of Saint John, which had its seat at first at the Schönbornerhof near Homberg, and then at the Commenturhof in Buborn.

The Order of Saint John acquired in the early 14th century an estate in Herren-Sulzbach, whose buildings were renovated and expanded in the course of time.

The Order’s landholds grew considerably in the course of time, mainly through land clearing and endowments.

The convent at Sulzbach lost much of its original importance when, in the course of the 14th century, another of the Order’s seats sprang up in Meisenheim, where travel links were more favourable.

Clearly, however, it did not belong to those villages of the court that were pledged in 1443 to the County of Veldenz as the “poor people of Grumbach” and later redeemed by the Waldgraviate.

In 1556, under its Grand Master Prince Georg von Schilling, it first pledged all its holdings to the Lordship of Grumbach under Rhinegrave Philipp Franz.

In the early 17th century, these holdings passed into the County’s ownership against a price of 3,200 Rhenish guilders, thus ending the village’s relationship with the Order of Saint John.

In 1793, French Revolutionary troops advanced through the Glan valley and stationed themselves in the villages near Grumbach, and this included Sulzbach.

Later, French soldiers from Grumbach began destroying houses in Sulzbach, but had to withdraw in the face of advancing Prussians.

As part of this state, it passed in 1834 to the Kingdom of Prussia, which made this area into the Sankt Wendel district.

The former cantons were changed into Prussian Ämter, and Herren-Sulzbach belonged to the Amt of Grumbach.

Later, after the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles stipulated, among other things, that 26 of the Sankt Wendel district’s 94 municipalities had to be ceded to the British- and French-occupied Saar.

After the Second World War, the village at first lay within the Regierungsbezirk of Koblenz in the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Although the Order remained in existence, even in the Protestant church, they could no longer hold their ground in Sulzbach.

In the Waldgravial-Rhinegravial House of Grumbach, the Protestant parish of Herren-Sulzbach was founded that same year.

Noteworthy inside is the gallery upon eight-sided wooden pillars whose balustrade bears paintings of Bible stories.

Beginning in 1606, the church’s crypt served as the burying place for the Grumbach feudal lords.

The upper charge in the arms, the lion, stands for the village’s former allegiance to the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves, while the other charge, the Maltese cross, is the traditional device borne by the Knights Hospitaller (Order of Saint John), who once held a seat in Herren-Sulzbach.

[15] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[16] Herren-Sulzbach holds its "Kirmes" (church consecration festival) on the third weekend in May.

[17] In the time after the Second World War, the number of agricultural operations shrank sharply, though the amount of land usable for farming was largely preserved.

In 1632, schoolteacher Jakob Schwarz lost his wife and all his children to the Plague, before he himself died a few weeks later.

At first, classes were taught at a herdsman’s house, and indeed this was for all schoolchildren from not only Herren-Sulzbach but also every other village in the parish that did not yet have its own school.

In 1846, a purpose-built schoolhouse, which for those days was quite big for a village school, was built, complete with a teacher’s dwelling.

Schoolteacher Rudolf Licht, who served in Sulzbach from 1905 to 1949, filled one volume of the school journals all by himself.

Young farmers could go to agricultural schools in Meisenheim and Baumholder, and after the 1968 regional reform, in Kusel, too.