Pleitersheim lies in the heart of Rhenish Hesse some 7 km east of downtown Bad Kreuznach on ground that slopes gently southeastwards to the Karlebach, a left-bank tributary to the Appelbach.

The outlying countryside is barely wooded at all and is grouped with the Wöllsteiner Hügelland (“hill land”), which hosts intensive agricultural use.

Although the town and district seat of Bad Kreuznach lies right nearby, Pleitersheim does not border directly on it.

Owing to acquisitions in the 14th century, half the village belonged to the Counts of Sponheim and then, after they died out, to the heirs, the Electorate of the Palatinate, the Margraviate of Baden and Veldenz-Zweibrücken.

In the 19th century, Pleitersheim – and likewise Tiefenthal – did not undergo any great growth in population as was observed everywhere else in the region.

The low population figure notwithstanding, there were enough interested people in the village in 1875 for a singing club to be founded.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[7] Pleitersheim's mayor is Bodo Ehrhardt.

[1] The German blazon reads: Der Schild ist durch eine aufsteigende eingebogene Spitze in drei Felder geteilt.

Feld 1 ist in Blau und Gold geschachtet, Feld 2 zeigt auf blauem, mit silbernen Kreuzchen bestreutem Grund einen steigenden, silbernen Löwen, silbern gekrönt und silbern gewehrt.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[8] The Evangelical church contains some important wall paintings depicting a Calvary scene, the Fourteen Holy Helpers and consecration crosses ascribed to the Pfaffen-Schwabenheim Augustinian canon Johannes von Goch from Eberhardsklausen Abbey in Klausen, painted about 1500 and rediscovered in 1950/1951.