The constituent community of Borgholz lies on the foothill of a high ridge northeast of Borgentreich (main town).

It has to thank for its founding – as does the main town – a dispute over sovereignty in the area between the Archbishops of Cologne and the Bishops of Paderborn in the 13th century.

The order to fortify the village high over the Jordan Valley was issued by Bishop Otto of Paderborn in 1290.

Niedernatzungen, which was near Borgholz railway station, is gone, and it is believed that it either fell victim to the Soest Feud or was destroyed by the Hussites, leaving only Obernatzungen, now called Natzungen.

Town council's 26 seats are apportioned as follows, in accordance with municipal elections held on May 25, 2014: Borgentreich's civic coat of arms has as one charge a rather unusual cross with a spike on the bottom.

The "embattled" (heraldically speaking) area in the bottom of the shield is the local variant of the widespread practice of representing in the civic coat of arms the number of constituent communities in an amalgamated municipality such as Borgentreich.