Weiden lies on the edge of the Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück between Mörschied and Hottenbach.

Weiden has the lowest population figure of any municipality in the Verbandsgemeinde of Herrstein.

Weiden lies on the Deutsche Edelsteinstraße (“German Gem Road”).

[3] Weiden's mayor is Manfred Dalheimer, and his deputies are Herbert Halberstadt and Werner Kaiser.

[4] The municipality's coat of arms are defined as: Per pale sable a hammer and pick per saltire and a miner's lamp in pale, both argent, and argent a cross gules.