Kirschweiler's neighbours besides Idar-Oberstein are Hettenrodt and Kempfeld with its outlying centre of Katzenloch.

[1] The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per bend azure a diamond with one row of brilliants and Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued of the first.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[5] Kirschweiler offers, among other things, a few gem-cutting shops that can be visited, a vast golf course (Golf Club Edelstein Hunsrück e.V.)

Even today, Kirschweiler's economic life is characterized by gemstone grinders’ and goldsmiths’ businesses.

On Kirschweiler's outskirts is a seniors’ home sponsored by the Elisabeth-Stiftung (“Elisabeth Foundation”, named after Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg) with 63 places and a further 6 places for assisted living.