According to information from the State Office for Care of Monuments in Koblenz, some of these barrows date back to the Bronze Age.

It had its first documentary mention on 4 June 898 as Pruteca im Mayengau in a donation document from the Lotharingian king Zwentibold, whose beneficiary was the Imperially immediate, free-noble convent in Essen.

Besides many holdings in the Cologne and Bergheim area, the king transferred to the convent “…in pago magnensi in villa pruteca terra arabilis cum curtile et vineis…” (roughly translated: “…in the Mayen country in the village of Bruttig an estate with associated arable earth and vineyards…”).

Language scholars derive the modern name from the Celtic Brutiacum (“Brut’s Dwelling”) through the Latin Proteca (AD 898) and Prodecha (1250) to today's Bruttig (or variant Pruttig) The other constituent community, Fankel, had its first documentary mention about 1100.

In the time of French occupation, beginning in 1794, both centres were assigned to the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Beilstein, which itself belonged to the Canton of Zell.

Bruttig-Fankel fosters partnerships with the following places: The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Winegrowing and tourism characterize the village and belong inseparably together.