The highest point is the mountain Černý vrch at 889 m (2,917 ft) above sea level.

For centuries, the inhabitants have subsisted on agriculture, especially the cultivation of rye, oats, potatoes, cattle grazing and forestry.

The number of inhabitants in the surrounding villages, which depended on coal mining, increased, but in Šenbach the population did not change.

Fields on mountain slopes surrounded by forests on all sides could not feed more people.

[4] The development of Šenbach was determined by an organized recruitment program for apprentices for heavy industries, announced in 1949 by President Klement Gottwald.