This historic wine village features half timbered houses and lies around 60 kilometers northwest of Stuttgart.

To the west, the landscape opens up to the typical cultivated hill country of Kraichgau, while to the east a large contiguous forest area of Stromberg-Heuchelberg nature park begins.

The municipality of Kürnbach includes the Aussiedlerhöfe Heiligenäcker and the estates of Humstermühle, Klostermühe, and Rohrmühle.

In the time of Charlemagne there already stood a wooden church in Kürnbach, which was later replaced by a Romanesque stone building.

The homeland poet Samuel Friedrich Sauter referred to Kürnbach as "... this market town of two states, divided into Hesse and Baden…".

Kürnbach now belonged two-thirds to the county Hesse and one-third to the Duchy of Württemberg, forming a condominium.

Kürnbach formed an enclave in Baden state territory and bordered the rest of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Three municipal calculations had to be conducted: one Baden, one Hessian and one for the condominium, with two different financial years on two different legal bases.

After the founding of the Reich in 1871 and the subsequent legal unification, the constitutional construct Kürnbach in fact appeared more abstruse and the privileges of the "tax haven" were reduced.

In exchange, the Grand Duchy of Hesse received the enclave Michelbuch and almost 300 ha of Baden forest near Heddesbach.

The municipality Kürnbach leads as a coat of arms a standing in red silver eagle claw.

Among the art treasures of the church include the choir vault; the crucifix from the 16th century, which is created with sandstone; five-meter-high Renaissance tomb for Bernhard von Sternenfels and his wife Maria Agatha von Weitershausen and the organ, which was built in 1834 by the Heidelberg organ builder Wilhelm Jacob Overmann.