To the east, it is bordered by the Steinerner Mann (“Stone Man”; 329 m) and a ridge that runs farther to the valley's north end, to the Schindelberg (379 m) and the Dellmesrech (390 m).

As early as the Middle Ages, Quirnbach's inhabitants settled at the lower end of the Wehrbach valley around the church.

On the way into the village in the Henschbach valley, standing at the former mill is an ancient limetree, which enjoys conservational protection.

In 1970, it became possible with the consequent freeing up of new land to build the new marketplace, complete with a market hall, and a playground.

To the north, the old Roman road is a “natural” boundary and to the west, parts of the municipal area reach into the Hodenbach valley.

According to the document in question, Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa acknowledged to Abbot Hugo of the Abbey of Saint-Remi his ownership of the Remigiusland.

The little farming village of Liebsthal, which until 1975 was a self-administering municipality, was also in earlier times tightly bound with its bigger neighbour, Quirnbach.

[10] After France had annexed the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank, Quirnbach, now the seat of a mairie (“mayoralty”), lay in the Canton of Kusel, the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld and the Department of Sarre.

Also belonging to the Mairie of Quirnbach were the villages of Hüffler, Wahnwegen, Liebsthal, Rehweiler, Trahweiler with Sangerhof and Frutzweiler.

In 1814, the French were driven out, and after a transitional period, the Baierischer Rheinkreis (Bavarian Rhine District) was founded, which was later called the Rheinpfalz (Rhenish Palatinate).

During the Palatine-Badish Uprising in 1849, Quirnbach played a special role through Mayor Jakob Munzinger's activities.

The following table shows population development over the centuries for Quirnbach, with some figures broken down by religious denomination, and including figures for the outlying centre of Liebsthal after 1961:[15] The following table shows population development over the centuries for Liebsthal up to 1961, with some figures broken down by religious denomination:[16] Quirnbach was at first only a brook's name, and it was so called by villagers in Rehweiler, Trahweiler and Frutzweiler, too.

As early as 1588, Johannes Hofmann wrote in his description of the Oberamt of Lichtenberg: “The Heinsbach (Henschbach) empties into the Glan taking up the Quirnbach before this.

Liebsthal was originally called Liebesstatt (in 1349 Lybestatt), and thus the settlement, perhaps a castle, bore a name that was meant to be understood as “Liebo’s Place”.

The placename ending —statt changed over time into —stall along the lines of the neighbouring vanished village of Leidentall, and then to —tal or —thal (“dale”).

The oldest record relevant to this states that after the Reverend Kayser's death on 15 March 1518, his post was awarded to the priest Lorenz from Altenglan by the Papal Prothonotary Marianus Carraciolus.

Now belonging to the Evangelical parish are the municipalities of Steinbach with Frutzweiler, Henschtal with Sangerhof, Quirnbach with Liebsthal and Rehweiler.

According to Karl Heinz Debus, author of Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz (“The Great Armorial Book of the Palatinate”, Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988[21]), the first form of the arms was approved by the Government of Bavaria in 1937, and the second form is supposedly now only still in use as a matter of custom.

[22] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[23] The whole Quirnbach area celebrates on the second Sunday in August the Quermbacher Kerb, as the kermis (church consecration festival) is known in the local speech.

Formerly, the kermis’s timing was reckoned by Saint Bartholomew’s Day (24 August), which meant that it fell on either the third or the fourth Sunday in the month.

In the graveside speech, the events during the kermis are reported in humorous fashion, and amid the bouquet lads’ howling and loud music, the villagers return to their dancing.

Early on, the sale begins of the Quirnbacher Lotterie, as do the organizational preparations, which demand every villager's efforts.

On the new marketplace and the village streets, some 75 to 80 sales booths are set up, a great horse show is staged and the lottery winner is drawn under the marquee.

Until the Second World War, the village's economic mainstay was agriculture, although many workers also commuted to work at the mines, ironworks and foundries in the Saarland.

Besides one farm, there are today 13 craft and retail businesses in Quirnbach, working at which is no small number of commuters from elsewhere.

Likewise, many people from Quirnbach travel to jobs in industry in Kaiserslautern, Homburg and even Ludwigshafen.

In those days, schoolteachers had to earn extra income by farming a plot, as did the village pastor, who in 1840 likewise got a new rectory, complete with a stable and a barn.

The children from the then newly merged municipality now attend kindergarten, primary school or Hauptschule in Glan-Münchweiler.

In the neighbouring villages of Rehweiler and Glan-Münchweiler, loading ramps were installed to enable better service to the markets in Quirnbach by improving livestock delivery.

Directly north lies the Autobahn A 62 (Kaiserslautern–Trier), the nearest interchange onto which is found in neighbouring Glan-Münchweiler, 3 km away.