Clockwise from the north, Hundsbach's neighbours are the municipalities of Kirschroth, Bärweiler, Lauschied, Jeckenbach, Schweinschied and Limbach, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

The village, mentioned in old records as Hundisbach had for a while in the Middle Ages two centres, Oberhundsbach and Niederhundsbach (“Upper” and “Nether”).

The Jews living in Becherbach bei Kirn, Bärweiler, Schweinschied, Löllbach and Hoppstädten formed outlying parts of this Jewish community.

According to Yad Vashem’s lists and information from the work Gedenkbuch - Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945"), the following members of Hundsbach's Jewish community fell victim to the Holocaust (along with their birth years): There were also two others from Schweinschied, who had since moved to Frankfurt: As at 30 September 2013, there are 390 full-time residents in Hundsbach, and of those, 308 are Evangelical (78.974%), 53 are Catholic (13.59%), and 29 (7.436%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.

In 1880, another fire broke out at the property next door causing such great damage that a new building had to be built.

The village chronicle reported the celebration, in which “the district chairman, among others, took part... [as did] the representatives of the municipality of Hundsbach and the district rabbi, who gave an uplifting speech in the house, which was filled by the crowd.” How long regular services were held at the synagogue is unknown.

Possibly as early as the turn of the 20th century, and no later than the time of the First World War, Jews from Hundsbach were attending services in Sien.

On 7 July 1930, the synagogue, with its yard and school (195 m2), was sold to a farmer named Frenger, who used the building for storage.

On Kristallnacht (9–10 November 1938), Brownshirts from Meisenheim supposedly destroyed the synagogue, but there is oral history in Hundsbach that holds that the destruction was actually undertaken by private citizens from the village itself.

[8] The Jewish graveyard in Hundsbach was laid out in the late 17th or early 18th century and is among the district's oldest.

It is easily visible on a hill roughly one kilometre east of Hundsbach (“Am Judenkirchhof”), some 400 m from the road that leads from Kirn to Meisenheim.

Coming from Hundsbach, it can be made out on the heights to the right of the road and can be reached along a farm lane.