In Sections 97 and 98 of the Hallschied State Forest are prehistoric and protohistoric barrows, bearing witness to early settlers in the area.

The tinctures or and azure (gold and blue) are a reference to the village's former allegiance to the "Further" County of Sponheim; it lay in the Amt of Kirchberg.

The silver raven refers to the Junkers of Koppenstein, who held the tithes and the fief at the Lötscher Mühle (mill).

Bus routes 644, 661 and 664 run by the Rhein-Mosel Verkehrsgesellschaft link the village to the nearby towns of Kirchberg and Simmern.

Along the municipality's northern outskirts, about a kilometre from the village centre, runs the well constructed Bundesstraße 50 between Bitburg and Bingen, by which the nearest Autobahn interchange, at Rheinböllen, on the A 61, can be reached, 20 km to the east.