The municipality lies in the Eifel, roughly 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of Kaisersesch, at an elevation of 550 metres (1,800 ft) above sea level.

Lob and the Modern High German Laub (a cognate of the English “leaf”)[4] refer to a forest, while ach means a boggy stretch of ground.

[5] Several finds in the Laubach area provide clues about early settlers; a late Bronze Age barrow exists in the municipality, and the Romans left stone traces.

Laubach belonged to the high court district of Masburg (which was owned by the Counts of Virneburg), and owed its tithes to Saint Castor's Monastery in Karden (even after the Electorate of Trier took over).

Laubach belonged to the Department of Rhin-et-Moselle (or Rhein-Mosel in German) and to the canton and mairie (mayoralty) of Kaisersesch.

The Rhineland, as part of a larger state, enjoyed advantages such as freedom of trade, equality before the law (including the Code Napoléon) and expansion of the road network.

Prussian rule brought the impoverished Eifel region economic improvements in health care, roads, schools, churches, industry and handicrafts (although the focus was still on agriculture).

National Socialism does not seem to have played much of a rôle in Laubach (apart from the occasional Nazi) compared with the rest of Germany.

This entry from the local schoolteacher in the school and village chronicle in 1933 says: With the seizure of power by the Führer Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP, the whole outlook changes.

Economic hardship again followed, eased by gathering beechnuts in the surrounding woods (as the villagers also did after the First World War).