The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.

The castle was mentioned about 1340 as belonging to the Counts of Luxembourg, although Brockscheid itself was within the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: A bar embattled enhanced sable, above which argent three crowns in fess gules, and below which Or a bell of the third.

The tinctures argent and gules (silver and red) refer to the village's former status as a municipality within the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun.

Below the bar, the tinctures are Or and gules (gold and red), which were those borne by the old Lords of Daun in their arms.