[4][5] The German blazon reads: Das Schild in Silber, darauf ein rotes Andreaskreuz, belegt mit zwei goldenen Ähren.

The two crossed ears of wheat stand for both agriculture and the miller's craft, both of which underlay the village's livelihood for centuries.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: The history of Saint Andrew's Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Andreas) in Urmersbach goes back to a reference in a 1574 Weistum (a Weistum – cognate with English wisdom – was a legal pronouncement issued by men learned in law in the Middle Ages and early modern times).

The chapel patron, Saint Andrew, was named for the first time in connection with setting the boundaries of the Polcher Holz (woodland).

The event, organized by the four clubs of the fair association (Kirmesgesellschaft), features, by longstanding tradition, fireworks in the middle of the village on streets closed specially for this purpose.

On 15 May 1895, Urmersbach was linked to the Eifelquerbahn (Cross Eifel Railway between Andernach and Gerolstein), which still runs through the village today.