Oberweiler-Tiefenbach lies on the river Lauter's right bank northeast of the Königsberg in the North Palatine Uplands.

The road along which the village stretches, nowadays known as Landesstraße 49, was originally the main link in the Lauter valley.

A small concentration of building stands in Oberweiler's south end near the mill, where a bridge over to the river's left bank is also to be found.

Another bridge linking to Bundesstraße 270 and the stop on the Lauter Valley Railway (Lautertalbahn) is found in the village's north.

Part of the industrial property owned by the firm K. O. Braun, a textile factory, lies within Oberweiler-Tiefenbach's limits.

[6] Both Oberweiler and Tiefenbach, neither of which had even yet had its first documentary mention, lay in the Nahegau and passed with the Unteramt of Einöllen to the County of Veldenz when it was founded in 1126.

[9] In the 16th and 17th centuries, both Oberweiler and Tiefenbach shared a history with the Unteramt of Einöllen within the County Palatine of Zweibrücken, which later was usually called a duchy.

Running westwards by both villages is the Lauter, which near Oberweiler drives one of the gristmills answerable to the Electoral Court Chamber (Kurfürstliche Hofkammer).

In Tiefenthal a toll is levied.”[10] During the time of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era that followed, the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank were annexed by France.

With the new political arrangement and within the new boundaries, Oberweiler-Tiefenbach found itself in the Canton of Wolfstein, the Arrondissement of Kaiserslautern and the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German) whose seat was at Mainz.

After French rule, once Napoleon had been driven out of the country, the Congress of Vienna drew new boundaries yet again.

After a transitional time, Oberweiler-Tiefenbach was grouped into the bayerischer Rheinkreis, later known as Rheinpfalz (“Rhenish Palatinate”), an exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816, where it lay within the Bürgermeisterei (“mayoralty”) of Wolfstein, the Canton (later Distrikt, until about the First World War) of Wolfstein and the Landcommissariat (today Landkreis or district) of Kusel.

By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 87.6%.

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

Oberweiler-Tiefenbach is thus a small residential community with employment opportunities in the local towns (Wolfstein, Lauterecken and Kaiserslautern).

After the Thirty Years' War, other denominations were once again allowed, though the overwhelming majority in both Oberweiler and Tiefenbach remained Reformed, or after the 1818 Protestant Union, Evangelical.

[17] The German blazon reads: In Gold ein gesenkter blauer Wellenbalken, belegt mit einem linksgewendeten silbernen Fisch, daraus hervorwachsend ein schwarzes Mühlrad, beseitet von je einer roten Spindel.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Or a fess abased wavy azure surmounted by a fish sinister argent and issuant from which a waterwheel spoked of four sable between in chief two spindles gules.

[19] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[20] Oberweiler-Tiefenbach's kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the Kerwe) is held each year on the third weekend in September.

Today, the nearest big industrial concern is the Braun textile mill headquartered in Wolfstein.