It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies on the like-named brook, the Reichenbach, west of the 563 m-high Feldberg.

Also belonging to Reichenbach are the outlying homesteads of Gerichtmannsmühle, Reichenbacherhöfe and Sonnenhof.

The “chequy” field is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the County of Sponheim.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[5] Running south of the village is the Autobahn A 62 (Kaiserslautern–Trier).