Herschbach is found in the Dierdorf Hollow, which is itself nestled in the hilly low mountain region of the lower Westerwald halfway between Cologne and Frankfurt am Main.

Right nearby is the Westerwald Lake Plateau on which rises the Holzbach, which also flows through the municipal area.

It can be assumed, however, that the area had already been settled long before that, as a place named Hergispach crops up in the Engers Chronicle from 963.

Moreover, the find of a “west German beaker adorned with band”, a replica of which is exhibited at the Landschaftsmuseum Westerwald in Hachenburg, bears witness to a human presence in the area some 4,000 years ago.

At this time, the mediaeval settlement consisted of the moated castle (Arx Hergispach, first documentary mention in 1320), which belonged to the Counts of Isenburg.

What is left over from the “quartzite boom” is a far-reaching change in the look of the local landscape due to tailing heaps, some of which are today overgrown with low forest.

In an extraordinary council session, the partnership documents were signed by the then mayors Dr. E. Playoust and Franz Beuler.

Today it houses a home for the aged for sisters of the Order of the Poor Serving Maids of Jesus Christ.

Johann Wilhelm Schöler built his great organ works in 1773 and 1774 for the Herschbach parish church.

The St. Anna parish church is a protected monument, and along with the historic town hall and the remodelled marketplace, forms the heart of Herschbach.

The Evangelical parish of Andreas only had a church built in 1989, as until the Second World War was over, Herschbach was almost exclusively Catholic.

As well, there is the Laurentius-Kapelle (chapel) in the graveyard at Oberherschbach, which was already mentioned in 1487, but from its early Gothic architecture, it may well be about a thousand years old.

Herschbach has at its disposal a sporting ground (hard-surface), tennis courts (hard-surface), an outdoor swimming pool, a fitness path, a campground, a skating rink, a discotheque and also some hiking trails in the surrounding woods, parts of which belong to the Westerwald Nordic Walking Park.

In the run-up to Rosenmontag (Shrove Monday), some 7 Carnival events are held (such as the “sessions” mentioned above), each of which draws some 400 to 1,000 visitors to the festival hall.

The yearly Rosenmontagszug (parade) with its more than 2,000 contributors and 15,000 visitors one of the biggest in the region, which has won Herschbach the title of “the” local Carnival stronghold.

On the “princes’ float” in 2006, for instance, 20,000 roses were used[10] Herschbach lies on Bundesstraße 413 to which it is linked by 3 interchanges.

The mittlerweile verworfene planning for an extension to the A 48 towards Siegen (Westerwaldautobahn) would have had the highway running east of the village north–south between Herschbach and Schenkelberg.

The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.