The interesting Evangelical village church was built in the Art Nouveau style in 1911–1912 to plans by Nuremberg architect Dünnbier.

A Roman road led over the nearby Roßberg, on whose peak – albeit outside Nußbach's limits in the neighbouring municipality of Becherbach – and near Gangloff (a constituent community of Becherbach), Viergöttersteine (“four-god stones”, pedestals on which a Jupiter Column was customarily stood) have been unearthed.

The Rhinegraves Georg and Konrad documented their parents’ bequest of a regular income from Nußbach to the Otterberg Monastery.

It was Rhinegrave Johann zu Salm who actually exercised this option in 1477 when Duke Ludwig “the Black” resided at Zweibrücken.

In 1553, Waldgrave and Rhinegrave Philipp Franz traded Nußbach, together with Schönau and half of Rudolphskirchen for Hochstetten in the Alsenz valley in the Imperial county of Reipoltskirchen under the then Baron Johann II.

Through all the changes that characterized the Imperial county’s history during the 17th and 18th centuries, Nußbach always remained with the “core” Imperial county with its centre of Reipoltskirchen and thereby shared the same history as the other villages of Rathskirchen, Reichsthal, Hefersweiler, Relsberg, Morbach, Finkenbach-Gersweiler, Schönborn, Dörnbach and half of Rudolphskirchen until the lordship was dissolved in the course of the French Revolution.

Nußbach thereby belonged between 1801 and 1814 to France, administratively to the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Becherbach, the Canton of Lauterecken, the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern and the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German).

In the regional new order laid out after the time of French rule by the Congress of Vienna, the village passed to the Kingdom of Bavaria, for the Palatinate had become an exclave of that state.

By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 39.7%.

Hitler's success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.

Whereas most of the Kusel district's villages saw their population levels fall after the Second World War, even after ethnic Germans driven out of Germany's former eastern territories had come to settle, in Nußbach, further population growth set in, fostered by the village's relative proximity to the regional hub, Kaiserslautern.

To the word Nuß—, the element —bach (German for “brook”) was added, and the name might originally have been given a settlement that arose at a walnut tree.

In the time of the Reformation, the villages of Berzweiler and Nußbach, as well as the Ausbacherhof and the Naumburgerhof (estates) near Ginsweiler, belonged to the Lutheran parish of Reipoltskirchen.

Also belonging to the Lutheran parish of Rathskirchen, which was likely founded as early as the introduction of the Reformation in the 16th century, were from then onwards the Protestants from Nußbach.

This grouped the Protestants in the municipalities of Reichsthal, Seelen, Rudolphskirchen, Nußbach and Reipoltskirchen as well as the estates of Karlshof, Ingweilerhof, Bösodenbacherhof and Ausbacherhof into the parish of Rathskirchen.

[1] The German blazon reads: Von Rot und Grün durch einen silbernen Schräglinkswellenbalken geteilt, oben ein goldener Glockenturm, unten ein goldener Haselnusszweig mit zwei Haselnüssen und einem Blatt.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: A bend sinister wavy argent between gules a belltower Or and vert a hazelnut twig fructed of two, foiled of one and slipped of the third.

Early in 2002, Nußbach found itself beset by a great number of members of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), a neo-Nazi organization.

Petitions against the NPD's activities in Nußbach were set up by former mayor Rudi Zapp in local shops and were quickly filled with signatures.

When the NPD announced only a week after their nighttime gathering that they would hold a demonstration on 24 February 2002, local residents decided to stage a counterdemonstration.

[21] Also found in Nußbach is the Alte-Welt-Museum (“Old World Museum”), which houses old craft exhibits and, among other things, an 18th-century loom.

Weaving is a traditional craft in Nußbach, with an address book from 1877 listing six linen weavers in the village.

[22] While in earlier times agriculture was a main source of income, nowadays only 20% of the people in Nußbach earn their livelihoods by working the land.

In 1834 he asked for his salary to be raised, but this was not approved, because the pastor was at odds with Lehmann over the schoolteacher's broad mindset.

The ongoing differences of opinion between Lehmann on the one hand and the pastor and the municipality on the other eventually led to neglect of the school and the teaching.

In 1874, the teaching post was once again vacant, and schoolteachers Karl Keller, who had been working in Sitters, and Jakob Brosius, from Feilbingert, taught temporarily.

A report about him in 1853 said that he was hardworking, regularly attended church, received the Sacraments and also held Sunday school.

Schoolteachers in the time that followed were Xaver Knörr, Christian Zimmer, Eduard Biermeier, Karl Baum, Andreas Streets, Pius Heiß, Adolf Braun, Karl Karsch, Ludwig Liebel, Josef Laux, Jakob Schild and Otto Anthes.

4 December 1911; d. 7 October 1981 in Landau) — After his Abitur at the episcopal boarding school in 1932, Schirmer studied theology in Innsbruck and Vienna.

After wartime service and imprisonment, he became assistant priest in Ruppertsberg, and as of 1950 docent at the Landau Paedagogical Academy.