Klingenmuenster has 2400 inhabitants and an area of 10,7 km².

Klingenmuenster was build beneath the Klingenmuenster Abbey that was build about 626 under the reign of Merovingian Dagobert I.

Michael Hahn, 20th  Governor of Louisiana from 1864 - 1865 was born in Klingenmuenster.