 Epfenbach is in Kraichgau on the edge of the little Odenwald.Epfenbach first appears in documents in the year 1286 as "Epphinbach" on a bestowal document of the Schönau Abbey.In 1325, the manor was sold to the Archbishopric of Mainz and then resold in 1344 to the knight Engelhard von Hirschhorn.