The Sulzbach village smith, Johann Nikolaus Stumm (born 1669), bought up several old Hunsrück hammermills and ran them with such great success that he became the father of the Saarland’s smelting industry.

The later “iron barons” of the family Stumm dominated and characterized the Saar region's economic history for a good two hundred years.

All together, Johann Michael Stumm and his descendants built roughly 370 organs in Sulzbach, installing them in churches in the region whose limits are marked by Saarbrücken, Karlsruhe and the Middle Rhine.

One fork led by way of Rhaunen and Büchenbeuren to Enkirch, while the other ran straight over the Idarkopf to the Temple of Sirona in Hochscheid, and onwards to a junction in the Zolleiche district with the ancient Via Ausonia (or Ausoniusstraße in German), which itself runs between Bingen and Trier.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess Or a monster with a wolf's head and an eagle's body sans talons displayed gules, its breast charged with a cramp sable, and azure a range of eleven organ pipes argent.

The charge above the line of partition is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the Waldgraviate-Rhinegraviate and indeed is the heraldic device once used in the Waldgravial-Rhinegravial court seal at Rhaunen.