The village itself stretches along a high hollow that opens towards the east into the Grumbach valley at an elevation of some 320 m above sea level.

The Schönbornerhof about one kilometre away and with an excellent view over the North Palatine Uplands lies almost 400 m above sea level.

These figures take into account the large parcel of land transferred to the municipality from the Baumholder troop drilling ground.

In the document in question, an arbitrator confirmed that Waldgrave Friedrich of Kyrburg had to forgo all his claims to rights to Hoenberg and a series of other places in the “Gericht auf der Höhe” (“Court on the Heights”).

The villages under the Gericht auf der Höhe, among which was Homberg, were pledged first, in 1363, by Johann von Dhaun to Sponheim-Starkenburg and then in 1443 by Waldgrave and Rhinegrave Friedrich to the last of the Counts of Veldenz, namely Friedrich III, whose daughter Anna married King Ruprecht's son Count Palatine Stephan.

The document whereby this arrangement was laid out referred to the village's inhabitants as the “poor people of Grumbach”.

However, the Franco-Dutch War was less kind, for in 1677, Homberg was burnt right down by French King Louis XIV's troops.

Through a law from 26 March 1798, the French abolished feudal rights in their zone of occupation, and there were thus no longer any lordly holdings.

[9] The French were driven out of the annexed German lands on the Rhine’s left bank in 1814, and Napoleon met his ultimate fate at Waterloo the following year.

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.

In the course of administrative restructuring in the state in 1968, the Amt of Grumbach was dissolved and in 1969, Homberg was transferred, this time to the Kusel district, in which it remains today.

The Prussian king granted reconstruction aid in the amount of 1,000 Thaler, and all neighbouring villages, and even some in the Meisenheim area, gathered up funds to help the Hombergers make a new beginning.

In 1958, there were still: Though Homberg had always been a place where the people earned their livelihoods at farming, structural changes after the Second World War have wrought significant differences in today's village.

S. 518), the former municipal area of the long vanished village of Ilgesheim – the Nazis had evacuated it in 1933 for military purposes – was annexed to Homberg with effect from 1 January 1994.

On the road leading out of Homberg towards Kirrweiler and Glanbrücken, one beholds a great farm, the Schönbornerhof, whose history is long and varied.

Old documents up until 1605 speak of the Sulzbacher Hof, which can be explained by a tight bond with nearby Herren-Sulzbach, which was likewise held by the Order of Saint John.

His joy and thanks for this convinced him to stay, build a cabin and name the place zuo dem schönen brunne (“at the lovely spring”), which later became Shonenbrunn (1290) and Schönborn.

In the historical record, on the other hand, it is known that until 1290, the Schönbornerhof belonged to the knight Sir Berthold von Grumbach, a courtier of the Waldgraves of Dhaun.

Thus did the estate, with its extensive lands – almost 500 Morgen (or 160 ha) – pass into the Knights Hospitaller’s ownership and become their local seat.

Thus it was thought that the Order's offer to Jakob von Montfort might come in handy as a place to build a new home for himself and his family for the future.

Even if the Schönbornerhof had been put into Erbbestand, it also time and again served the Counts of Grumbach as a temporary lodging and hunting seat.

In 1691, Waldgrave and Rhinegrave Leopold Phillip Wuilhelm built a small hunting lodge on the estate, which saw avid use.

The name makes clear a link with a spring (the element —born— still means “spring” in Modern High German, although the usual form is Brunnen) at the founding site, while the first syllable, Schön— (meaning “lovely” or “nice”) likely refers to the estate's location with its lovely view.

Places with the name element —weiler, which as a standalone word means “hamlet” (originally “homestead”), cannot be dated very accurately by this fact alone, as they arose over a very long timespan.

[19] Within the region governed by the Gericht auf der Höhe (“Court on the Heights”), a parish likely existed in the Early Middle Ages whose hub was a church in the Kirrweiler area and to which Homberg, too, belonged.

[1] The German blazon reads: In schräglinks geteiltem Schild vorne einen roten, blaubewehrten und -gezungten Löwen in Gold, hinten in schwarz ein silbernes Haus unter einem silbernen Jagdhorn.

The lion charge on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves.

[27] Since the Second World War, the number of agricultural operations has shrunk greatly, although farmland has remained largely preserved.

[28] As in other villages in the Amt of Grumbach that were thus affected by the Reformation, efforts also began in Homberg in the late 16th century to establish schools and teach children.

Young farmers could attend agricultural schools in Meisenheim and Baumholder, and after local governmental restructuring in 1968, also in Kusel.