In terms of geographical landscape regions, Schloßböckelheim and its surrounding countryside belong to the Lower Naheland, which is framed to the northwest by the Soonwald's southern foothills, to the south by the North Palatine Uplands and to the east by Rhenish Hesse and the Rhine itself.

The area lies in the west of the Nahe-Alsenz Felsenland ("rock country") at the transitional zone leading into the Sobernheim valley broadening.

Clockwise from the north, Schloßböckelheim's neighbours are the municipalities of Weinsheim, Hüffelsheim, Niederhausen, Oberhausen an der Nahe and Waldböckelheim, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

[3] The Middle Naheland is part of a warm and dry area lying alee of the Hunsrück in which many rare submediterranean and subcontinental plant species can be found.

Subcontinental plants exist in the Nahe valley along the western edge, while submediterranean ones can be found here at the northern border of their ranges.

Plant communities with species that thrive in warmth colonize mostly stony and craggy slopes in the Nahe valley with southwestern exposure.

Because of the unusual vegetation, this Heimberg-Schäferberg-Felsenberg landscape is sometimes compared to certain parts of central Italy or Dalmatia and the tree-sparse steppe heaths and maquis found there.

The three prefixes that serve to distinguish the three centres whose names are otherwise the same are all standard German words with well understood meanings: Wald ("forest"); Schloß (or Schloss in up-to-date spelling; "castle/palace"); Tal ("dale/valley").

In the early part of the last century, in response to an inquiry by the authorities as to what the village was called, because it consisted of two constituent centres, the name Thalböckelheim was given by the then Schöffe (roughly "lay jurist").

[7] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Chequy of twenty azure and Or, on a chief gules a bunch of grapes leafed of one and slipped and a wheel spoked of six, both of the second.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments:[8] One kilometre west of Schloßböckelheim stands a 29 m-tall lookout tower built in 2008.

The so-called Heimbergturm was built on the 302 m-high Heimberg and offers a view of the Hunsrück (Erbeskopf, Berg Alteburg, Ellerspring, Gauchswald, Kandrich), the Taunus (Kalte Herberge, Hohe Wurzel, Großer Feldberg), parts of Rhenish Hesse, the Naheland (Schanzenkopf, Kuhberg, Lemberg) and the North Palatine Uplands (Donnersberg, Königsberg, Bornberg).

Right nearby, the villages of Waldböckelheim, Burgsponheim, Hüffelsheim, Schloßböckelheim, Odernheim am Glan and Staudernheim can be made out.