Jettenbach is a former farming village, and also one of the villages known for "Musikantentum", an industry that formerly sent local musicians all over the world. The village also had regional craft businesses. In earlier times, the village displayed two types of layout depending on whether one viewed it from the east end or the west, with the former layout like a clump village and the latter like a linear village (or by some definitions, a "thorpe"). Rising above the village centre on a small hillock is the Evangelical village parish church, built in 1895-1896, which, owing to the great many "Wandermusikanten" ("travelling musicians") at one time, is also widely known as the "Musikantendom" ("Musicians’ Cathedral", although it is not a bishop's seat). Next to it stands the Art Nouveau Leonhard Villa, known in Jettenbach as the "Schlösschen" ("Little Palace"). In 1989, the new village square with its "Musikantenbrunnen" – a fountain dedicated to the musicians of yore – was completed at the heart of the village. At the south end of the village, a community recreation area has been under development since 1978. It has a swimming pool (first established by the Nazis in the 1930s), a grass sports ground, and two clay tennis courts. Accompanying the new village primary school is a multipurpose community centre for school sports and other leisure activities. Still in its planning stages is an expansion of a disused rural pathway which is to be repurposed as an educational nature walk with a dry stone wall, featuring various portions of its length in different conditions to host a variety of flora and fauna for visitors to observe.