This small provincial town consists of two streets with shops, and it is surrounded by moors, forests and streams.

However, it could also represent a well-known, old coincidence between words of twi- and kwi-, which refer to something twofold.

[2] The stream, which runs through Kibæk, created the basis for a watermill established sometime in the early 1400s,[3] which until the end of the 19th century was the most important building in the area.

With the construction of the railway between Herning and Skjern in 1881, Kibæk became home to a station, which created the basis for a large population growth in the following decades.

This development meant that Kibæk, which until the end of the 19th century had only been a secondary settlement in Assing Sogn [da], accommodated more than half of the parish's population.