Arising from this are the great amounts of groundwater found here, which supply not only Birgel but also other municipalities in the Verbandsgemeinde of Obere Kyll with drinking water.

In 1222, Birgel had its first documentary mention in the commentary of Prüm Abbey’s directory of holdings, the Prümer Urbar.

In the course of administrative restructuring, the formerly self-administering Ämter of Stadtkyll and Lissendorf-Birgel were dissolved, and Birgel was grouped into the newly formed Verbandsgemeinde of Obere Kyll with its seat at Jünkerath.

[7] In 2006, the municipality of Birgel received first place in the contest Unser Dorf hat Zukunft (“Our Village Has a Future”) in the Vulkaneifel (then still Daun) district's main class.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Vert in base a mount of three upon which a stag's head caboshed, between his attires a Latin cross, all argent.

The stag's head and the cross between his antlers (“attires”) form one of Saint Hubert's attributes, thus making it a reference to the local chapel's patron.