Very early, Hochstätten came under the lordship of the Raugraves and Rhinegraves, who were based at Rheingrafenstein Castle, and later at Gaugrehweiler.

The village remained in Bavaria until during the Allied occupation after the Second World War, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was founded.

[6] Bearing witness to Hochstätten's history as part of Bavaria, the Bavarian state arms can still be seen today above the stage at the municipal hall, and even the favourite card game at the local Stammtische (regulars' tables) is still one that Germans commonly associate with Bavaria – Schafkopf.

The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:[8] Ecclesiastically, Hochstätten belongs, as it long has, to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer.

[9] The municipal council is made up of 12 members, elected by majority vote, with the honorary mayor as chairman.

[1] The municipality's arms might be blazoned as follows: or, in base a trimount vert issuant from which an oak tree leafed of fifteen and fructed of ten, all proper, surmounting the trunk a wolf courant sable langued gules.

The German words for the charges (Eiche – oak tree; Baum – tree; Blatt – leaf; Eichel – acorn; Wolf – wolf; Dreiberg – trimount) do not resemble the name Hochstätten in any way, so the arms would not seem to be canting, which is also common in German civic heraldry.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments:[11] The first Jewish graveyard was laid out in the early 19th century.

The last burial in the Jewish graveyard was in 1935 (Fanny Kahn née Strauss, died on 13 November 1935).

The vines on the southern slopes, on soil that is in part slaty, produce good wine, known far beyond the borders of the Nahegau as Hochstätter Liebesbrunnen.

[17] In 1983, when the municipal library, then housed in two trunks, was woken out of its long slumber, there were 580 books.