Gödenroth is an Ortsgemeinde, or municipality, located in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district within the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It functions as a local administrative unit belonging to a larger collective municipality known as a Verbandsgemeinde.
The village is part of the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, which maintains its administrative seat in the town of Kastellaun. Gödenroth is situated within the rural landscape characteristic of the Hunsrück region.