In the 1st century BC, the region between the rivers Nahe and Meuse was inhabited by the Treveri, a people of mixed Celtic and Germanic stock, who crossed the Rhine quite early on and settled in the area where Vollmersbach now lies, and from whom the Latin name for the city of Trier, Augusta Treverorum, is also derived.

Until Drusus's time – shortly before the Christian Era – they lived fully independently, even while recognizing the Roman Empire’s hegemony in the region.

With the partition of the Frankish Empire negotiated in the 843 Treaty of Verdun, the three Gaue (roughly “shires”) on the Rhine's left bank, the Wormsgau, the Speyergau and the Nahegau, passed to Louis the German’s inheritance.

The Nahegau’s nearby border villages were Hammerstein, Enzweiler, Idar-Algenrodt (all three of which are nowadays part of Idar-Oberstein), Mackenrodt, Hettenrodt and Kirschweiler.

In 990, Vollmersbach was mentioned by the name Folemarisbach along with the Saint Maximin’s Abbey holding of Siemora (Simmern and Dhaun).

A further estate area seems to have sprung up in the 14th century, early in the time when Vollmersbach belonged to the lordship of Oberstein, in the upper part of the village.

Along with Oberstein, which had hitherto been under Prussian administration, Vollmersbach passed on 9 April 1817 to the newly formed Principality of Birkenfeld, an exclave of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, most of whose territory was in what is now northwest Germany, with a coastline on the North Sea.

The Second World War came home to Vollmersbach on the night of 9–10 August 1943 when an RAF Handley Page Halifax piloted by Jim Pestridge crashed in a meadow in the municipality.

It had been shot down during an attack on Mannheim by German night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Johannes Engels over Idar-Oberstein.

The charge on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side, the lion, is the device formerly borne by the Oberstein Estate, the feudal lordship that once held Vollmersbach.

The wavy fess (that is, horizontal stripe) on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side stands for the village's namesake river.

[7] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[8] Saint Andrew’s Well (Andreasbrunnen in High German, or Ennerschbure in the local speech) lies towards the west end of the municipal area.

Cropraising and livestock raising must have become secondary occupations quite early on, for in the days of the earliest known gemstone cutters, names from Vollmersbach crop up.

[9] With the opening of the new community centre in 1987, people in Vollmersbach had for the first time an opportunity to pursue cultural and sporting interests at facilities designed with them in mind.