Kirchberg's skyline, with its three towers - two churchtowers and one watertower - can be seen from a long way off, for they stand on raised land that gives the town its nickname Town on the Mountain. From the churchtower at Saint Michael's, the following places can be seen: to the southeast, the Soonwald (a heavily wooded section of the west-central Hunsrück) with the Koppenstein castle ruin; to the south, the Lützelsoon (a little outlier of the Soonwald); to the southwest, the Idarkopf and the Erbeskopf (mountains, the latter of which, at 816 m above sea level is Rhineland-Palatinate's highest point); to the northeast, the area around Kastellaun; to the east, the district seat of Simmern. West of Kirchberg lies the Kyrbach valley, and to the east the Kauerbach valley. To the town's north runs the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (Hunsrück Heights Road, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring's orders) from Saarburg to Koblenz (Bundesstraße 327).