Holzbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The municipality lies in the Hunsrück in a landscape with slopes and hollows through which flows the Holzbacher Bach towards Ohlweiler, emptying into the Simmerbach. Some 0.60 km² of the municipal area is wooded, the main type of forest being mixed forest. The rural municipality of Holzbach lies 5 km from the district seat of Simmern.
In 1346, Holzbach had its first documentary mention. Archaeological finds from the New Stone Age and Roman times, however, clearly show that the land was settled long before that.
Beginning in 1794, Holzbach lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. In 1921, the simultaneum at the village church was dissolved, and a new Evangelical church was built in 1926.
Holzbach (Auelsbach) is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Holzbach (Hochwald) is a river of Saarland, Germany.
The hammer did fall too fast
The only one left in last
Stood before him and laughed
The mark it was true, the mark it was true
Only believing in fate
For seeing the signs too late
Was dying to be so great
Gave up on you, gave up on you
The glory of hate
The glory of pain
In time seeking all that was good
Hellspeak was the word
Heard only as true
The opened the gates to soon
Lost out on the coming moon
The blood of the fallen strewn