The countryside and the municipality itself are characterized by the Hoppstädt Nahe valley, a broad floodplain with vast meadowlands and wooded mountain slopes on both sides.

Jakob von Eberstein married the daughter who held hereditary rights, and about 1550 he built the castle that bore the same name.

The emergency and reserve hospital had at its disposal 1,000 beds and various medical departments for, among others, surgery, dentistry, orthopaedics, radiology, rehabilitation and ophthalmology.

[1] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess sable issuant from the line of partition a demilion Or armed, langued and crowned gules, and argent a pale wavy azure between a wheel spoked of four, the rim couped between the two uppermost spokes of the third and the hub surmounted by the blade of a sword palewise of the first the hilt and pommel of the third, and a factory of the third with five windows and a door of the first.

Between the municipality's two main centres of Hoppstädten and Weiersbach lies the Hoppstädten-Weiersbach Special Airfield (ICAO code: EDRH).