Sohren is a state-recognized tourism resort (Fremdenverkehrsort) and is set out in state planning as a lower centre.

North of Sohren runs Bundesstraße 50, and 2 km (1 mi) northwest lies Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

In 846, Sohren had its first documentary mention when the Sororo marca was donated to Saint Alban's Abbey in Mainz by Count of the Nahegau Adilbert.

In 1301, the Imperial estate of Sohren, along with the villages of Hahn, Bärenbach, Büchenbeuren, Lautzenhausen, Niedersohren, Niederweiler and Wahlenau, as well as the now vanished villages of Litzelsohren, Vockenrode and Niederhoven, were transferred with King Albrecht I's leave to Count Eberhard of Sponheim-Neef and his wife Elisabeth.

In 1442, King Friedrich III enfeoffed the Margrave of Baden, Jakob I and the Count of Veldenz as the heirs to the County of Sponheim.

The alignment of the boundary of the Pflege (literally “care”, but in this context taken to mean “administrative area”) of Sohren was laid out precisely in 1476.

A treaty with regard to the partition of the “Further” County of Sponheim between the Electorate of the Palatinate and Baden was signed in 1707, thereby making the Pflege of Sohren part of the Badish Oberamt of Kirchberg.

Sohren became the centre of a mairie (“mayoralty”) with the villages of Altlay, Bärenbach, Belg, Büchenbeuren, Lautzenhausen, Niedersohren, Niederweiler and Wahlenau with all together 2,407 inhabitants.

However, when it could be foreseen that nothing could stop this, Sohren fought the proposed merger, which Büchenbeuren council had already approved.

[5] Northeast of the village, near the Birkenhöhe (“Birch Heights”), Sohren's Jewish graveyard can be found.

[7][8] The German blazon reads: In Schwarz ein von Blau und Gold in zwei Reihen geschachter Balken; darüber schwebend eine goldene Blätterkrone mit blauen und roten Besatzsteinen.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Sable a fess abased countercompony azure and Or, above which a crown Or set with stones of the first and gules.

[9] Sohren fosters partnerships with the following places:[10] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[11] The village lies roughly 2 km (1 mi) by road from Rhineland-Palatinate's only international airport, Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.