On 1 March 1285, Muntenich had its first documentary mention in Karden Canon Heinrich de Littore's will.

Trier's lordship ended with the occupation of the lands on the Rhine’s left bank by French Revolutionary troops between 1794 and 1796.

[1] The German blazon reads: Schild durch eingeschweifte, gestürzte goldene Spitze, darin ein schwarzer rotgezungter Adler, gespalten; vorn in Rot ein silberner Rost, hinten in Grün nebeneinander drei goldene Ähren mit Halmen.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Tierced in mantle reversed, gules a gridiron argent, the handle to chief, Or an eagle displayed sable sans talons langued of the first, and vert three ears of wheat of the third.

The village arose from a farming estate; as early as the 13th century, St. Maximin's Abbey in Trier was drawing income from this place.