Going by archaeological finds from prehistory and protohistory, the Laufersweiler area might have been settled as early as the Bronze Age and Hallstatt times.

Along what is now the municipal limit between Laufersweiler and Niederweiler ran the Via Ausonia (or Ausoniusstraße in German) in Roman times.

In the 14th century, the ownership arrangements changed in such a way that part of the village became an Electoral-Trier fief and another became subject to the Barons of Schmidtburg.

[6] Beginning in the mid 16th century, there was in Laufersweiler a coaching inn (Poststation) on the Dutch Postal Route (Niederländischer Postkurs) from Brussels to Augsburg, Innsbruck, Trento, Venice, Milan and Rome.

This postal way station was first mentioned in the documents about the 1561 mail robbery, when the horse-borne post was attacked on the way from Laufersweiler to Eckweiler (now a ghost village).

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[12] Laufersweiler's mayor is Rudi Schneider.

Likewise, the charge below this, the buckle, refers to a former lord, the Schenk of Schmidtburg, whose arms bore this device.

[13] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[14] Housed in the former synagogue is a museum of Jewish history in the Hunsrück.

In the Lower Village (Unterdorf) and on Kirchgasse are found timber-frame buildings with carved doors that are worth seeing.