The village extends over about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) in the valley of a stream flowing north into the Preßnitz.

Around 1300, the monastery's possessions in the Upper Ore Mountains were sold to the landlords of Waldenburg in Wolkenstein.

[1] From the second half of the 15th century, the town had a small wall-walk church which was looked after by the Franciscans of the Annaberg monastery.

In 1654 an ironstone mine was set up, and the ore extracted was delivered to the hammer works in Preßnitztal for smelting.

[3] In 1844, the Freiberg professor August Breithaupt described the minerals bodenite and muromonerite found in Mauersberg.

[citation needed] In February 1889, the old wall-walk church was demolished[3] and replaced by a neo-Gothic building by the architect Theodor Quentin, which was consecrated on 17 December 1890.