About the year 1920 during building excavation work, a whole underground maze of passageways some 1.8 m high with peaked ceilings, well preserved inside a cliff, was unearthed.

It lay one metre below the modern surface, which given the rate of wind deposition in the Eifel dates the find to about 2,000 years ago.

Beuren itself was a late founding, arising about 1300, and in 1744 consisted of three estates, one belonging to the Stuben Monastery, one being an Electoral-Trier holding and one being held by the Pyrmonts.

Murus in Latin means “wall” or “fortification”, which along with the archaeological finds points to Roman beginnings.

Neediness, poverty and hunger were to blame for these people's quest for a new livelihood in the United States or Brazil.

Many inhabitants, mainly from the younger generations, moved to Germany's industrial centres and took on work there, and a great number of them also chose to settle there.

[5] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Tierced in mantle dexter argent issuant from base a cross tau sable, hanging on each arm a bell gules, sinister Or three ears of wheat slipped vert, the two outer ones with blades, in base vert an urn with two handles of the first.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Beuren has various hiking possibilities to, for instance, a local waterfall.