The municipality lies on the river Moselle upstream from the weir at Bruttig-Fankel between Cochem and Zell in the middle of the Cochemer Krampen, a 24-kilometre-long stretch of the Moselle made up of many winding bows.

The municipality's best known winegrowing operation (Rüberberger Domherrenberg) is found on the steep slopes over on the other side of the Moselle.

In 1595, Briedern was attacked by Anton Langhaar ("Anthony Longhair"), who wrought his evil deeds from his home base in Kastellaun in the Hunsrück.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[3] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess argent a vine issuant from the line of partition in dexter and embowed to dexter, leafed of three and fructed of two, all proper, and azure in base water of the first in which a wooden boat proper, the prow to sinister and ensigned with a cross.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments: