[3] The earliest traces of human habitation in what is now Nußbaum come from an ice-age supply camp from the Late Stone Age.

In a building excavation in 1996, local historians discovered remnants of a fireplace in which there were reindeer antler fragments and bones, believed to have been from horses.

Stone tools were also found, blade fragments among other things, at the site of this archaeological find, which lies about one kilometre south of the village.

In the War of the Succession of Landshut (1504-1505), Nußbaum was all but utterly burnt down in 1504, as were many other places, and was only built anew from the few remnants of the old village one hundred years later.

The church with its massive 13th-century steeple is used by both Catholics and Evangelicals, while the “tower with bells and rope” is the secular municipality's property.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Or a bend cotticed sable surmounted by an inescutcheon vert charged with a hazelnut slipped palewise of the first.

[5] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[9] Nußbaum's Schloss is still under private ownership today, and may not be visited by the public.

[11] Nußbaum wine ripens on a vineyard area of 20 ha in the individual winegrowing locations – Einzellagen – of “Rotfeld”, “Höllenberg” and “Sonnenberg”.