It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kaisersesch, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the Eifel about 4 km northwest of Kaisersesch.

[3] Kalenborn's mayor is Werner Arenz, and his deputies are Toni Thelen and Erwin Groß.

[4] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Tierced in mantle, dexter vert three ears of wheat, one palewise surmounted by another bendwise sinister, itself surmounted by another palewise to dexter of the first, all Or, sinister gules a well pump argent, and in base Or a tower masoned sable with a conical roof of the third.

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