The state-approved health resort Seebach is located in the northern Black Forest in the upper Achertal . The Acher rises on the district of Seebach. The municipality extends from 400 meters up to the summit of Hornisgrinde in 1164 meters above sea level . More than 75 percent of the municipal area is covered with forest. In the area of the municipality of Seebach, directly on the Black Forest High Road, lies the Mummelsee at more than one thousand meters altitude.
Bædeker The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance (1873) Route 46 page 256 refers to a river or stream: On the r. , 1 M. farther , the Seebach , which
drains the lonely Wildsee , or Glaswald - See on the hill ( 1 1/2 hr . from the road) , dashes down from a wild ravine. Below this point the valley is termed the Schapbachthal.