The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.

The village’s beginnings apparently lie in a Roman military post named Scolinaria on a road leading from Steffeln by way of Glaadt to Cologne.

It was the last document issued by Carolingian Emperor Lothair I, coming mere days before his death, and it dealt with the partition of his empire among his three sons.

Today, Schüller is a small, typical Eifel village; there is hardly any commercial activity and only the odd full-time farmer.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Barry of ten argent and azure, a pale of the first upon which a sword of the second hilted Or, the point to chief.