Schwarzen lies roughly 5 km west-northwest of Kirchberg and the same distance northeast of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

In the field known as “Hinter dem Sträßchen”, old foundations have been unearthed and hewn pieces of sandstone have been brought to light.

[1] The German blazon reads: Gespalten durch eingeschweifte silberne Spitze, belegt mit einem blauen, rotbewehrt und -bezungten Löwen, vorn in Rot eine goldene Glocke, hinten in Grün ein goldener Pflug.

The charge on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side, the bell, comes from a local folktale that tells of how monks from the Schwarzen Monastery kept their bells from being seized by the warring parties in the Thirty Years' War by putting them underwater in the brook.

The plough on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side recalls agriculture, which over centuries was Schwarzen's livelihood.