The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[3] The German blazon reads: Schild schräglinks stufenförmig geteilt, vorne in Silber ein roter Drache, hinten in Rot drei goldene Ähren.

Written history records that on 30 December 1704, Count Hugo Ernst Cratz von Scharfenstein donated all his rights to the villages of Rivenich and Erlenbach to Baron Karl Kaspar von Kesselstatt, Provost of the Trier Monastery of St. Paulin.

With the family von Kesselstatt's approval, the charge borne by the former barons (later Imperial counts) appears on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side.

The step-shaped division of the field recalls the “fess dancetty” (horizontal zigzag stripe) formerly borne as an heraldic device by the Lords of Manderscheid, and thereby also Rivenich's time under the Manderscheid-Bruch high court.

Likewise, the charge on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side recalls a composition once seen on a court seal (from 1765).