Outlying centres can be reached from the crossroads in the middle of the village, as can the “old new” building development called Auf dem Ellenberg, which sits at 450 m above sea level.

These were the Treveri, a people of mixed Celtic and Germanic stock, from whom the Latin name for the city of Trier, Augusta Treverorum, is also derived.

They were followed by the Romans (58 BC to AD 400) from whose time come the foundations of a country house – a villa rustica – unearthed in the municipality.

With the coming of the first permanent teacher, children from both Dienstweiler and Castle Birkenfeld were taught together beginning in 1785, although this institution did not last long.

[1] Previous mayors were: The German blazon reads: In schräglinks geteiltem Schild vorne rot-silbern geschacht, hinten in Silber eine schwarze Urne mit Deckel.

The “chequy” pattern on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, Oberamt of Birkenfeld, while the lidded urn on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side stands for the find of such an artefact at a barrow within the municipality's limits.

[8] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[9] To the west runs Bundesstraße 41 and to the south lies the Autobahn A 62 (Kaiserslautern–Trier).