sentences:  The municipality lies in the Western Palatinate west of Lauterecken at an elevation of about 300 m above sea level on a brook called the Sulzbach, which rises within municipal limits and then flows less than a kilometre down to the Grumbach, which is also known hereabouts as the Rüllbach.The mountains around the village reach elevations of 340 to 360 m above sea level.The municipal area measures 296 ha, of which roughly 8 ha is settled and 69 ha is wooded.