[1] The German blazon reads: Unter rot-silbern geschachtem Schildhaupt in Blau ein goldenes Rechteck, darin zwei rotgewandete Figuren, die Aeskulap und Merkur darstellen.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure a block Or charged with figures of Aesculapius and Mercury of the same vested gules.

The chief is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, which bore arms chequy gules and argent.

The charge on the blue field is a simplified depiction of a Roman “eight-god stone” – now kept at the Birkenfeld local history museum – found near the Sauerbrunnen.

[4] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[5]