Before the mid 18th century, the southern Eifel was an iron ore production centre of Europe-wide importance.

The rivers and streams were harnessed to work the smiths’ bellows, and the forests afforded the needed firewood.

[3] Schmitt's mayor is Wilfried Linden, and his deputy is Andreas Peifer.

[4] The municipality's arms might be described thus: A pale Or charged with a broadsword palewise sable, the hilt to the chief, between vert an oak sprig slipped bendwise sinister leafed of four and fructed of two of the first, and gules three ears of wheat surmounted in base by a sickle of the first.

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