Raumbach is a linear village (by some definitions, a “thorpe”) that lies between Meisenheim and Rehborn on the left (west) side of the lower Glan valley in a part of the North Palatine Uplands characterized mainly by cropfields and woodland.
Archaeological finds from the time of the Celtic habitation of the Glan-Nahe region have led to the conclusion that even a few centuries before the Christian Era, there were people living in scattered homesteads here.
There were no longer any nomads, but rather settled farmers who worked the land, raised livestock and understood how to make themselves articles for everyday use from bronze, iron and clay.
To defend themselves against the unending threat of invasion by Germanic peoples from the east, they built refuge castles girded by ringwalls on mountaintops.
Settled in those days were, not the dales, as they were mostly boggy and offered people and livestock no haven from the threat of flooding, but rather the heights and slopes.
[6] The Migration Period and the attendant threat to the city of Rome itself by the Germanic tribes in AD 410 underlay the Roman military and civil administration's pullout from the Rhineland and the Province of Gaul.
[8] Under Duke Ludwig II, the Reformation was introduced into the County Palatine of Zweibrücken and into Raumbach, along with every other place in the duchy.
By the end of it all, Unterraumbach and Oberraumbach – the two separate centres that had not yet been joined by a good road – together formed a thoroughly Protestant community.
Since Duke Wolfgang had granted the professionals that he had summoned to the country religious freedom, a number of the newcomers were Catholic.
It was the time of the Counterreformation that brought people the greatest misery and destroyed Meisenheim's and its surrounding villages’ prosperity through warfare, deprivation, plundering, sickness and intolerance.
French King Louis XIV's wars of conquest, whose goal was to push France's frontier to the Rhine, struck the Palatinate particularly hard.
In 1815, when Napoleonic times had been brought to an unambiguous end, the Prussians acquired the lands on the Rhine's left bank.
Despite the heavy financial losses, municipal council decided only a few years after the rampant inflation in the early 1920s to build a watermain, completing the project in 1931.
[12] Mechanization, which had already set in before the Second World War, only to accelerate after currency reform (introduction of the Deutsche Mark), presented the local farmers with a wholly new problem.
The farmers’ fate was shared by the craftsmen: the blacksmith, the wainwright, the shoemaker and the tailor all had to shut up shop.
This includes integrating the body of the village into the surrounding landscape by planting trees, orchards and gardens between the built-up area and the countryside (among other ways that are to be employed to bring this about), expansion of residential areas while rounding the edge of the village, remodelling the areas around the bridges by, among other things, planting more greenery, building retaining walls along Hauptstraße and planting vines to climb up them, converting the sport hall into a village community centre with a youth room, and many other measures.