The village’s name also crops up in a taxation list from Emperor Maximilian that dealt with the Gemeiner Pfennig, a levy of one Pfennig (or penny) imposed by the 1495 Diet of Worms (not the one commonly connected with Martin Luther).
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It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rheinböllen, whose seat is in the like-named town.
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During the Cold War, American Patriot missiles with nuclear warheads were stationed for air defence on the Kandrich, a mountain near Dichtelbach.
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The municipality’s namesake is a brook called the Dichtelbach, which empties into the Guldenbach between Rheinböllen’s main centre and its outlying centre of Rheinböllerhütte.