It lies roughly centrally within its municipal area, sloping down gently towards the Külzbach valley.

A lordly estate named Lupach belonged as of that year to the Ravengiersburg Monastery as the result of an exchange deal with Provost Amselm of Saint Stephen's in Mainz.

On 13 June 1302, Emperor Albert I pledged the villages, for services to be rendered, to Count Simon of Sponheim, or as he is called in the document, “Simoni comti des Spanheim”, after long, drawn-out warfare in 1300 and 1301.

The lordship at this time was held by the Count Palatine of the Rhine, on whose orders the fortifications, presumably hitherto a single wall, were expanded with a ringwall.

[5] The municipality's arms might be described thus: A fess wavy abased argent between sable a lion rampant with tail forked flory Or armed and langued gules and vert an oakleaf fesswise fructed of two of the third.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[6] The village's appearance is characterized by two churches that tower over it, a lovely and functional community centre, a kindergarten, two inns, a drink wholesaler, a Trakehner stud farm with a riding facility and several major agricultural businesses.