The municipality lies in the Eifel about 5 km northwest of Bremm on the river Moselle.

Electoral-Trier overlordship came to an end when the French occupied the Rhine’s left bank between 1794 and 1796.

[3] Urschmitt's mayor is Peter Jahnen, and his deputy is Walter Sossong.

[4] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Tierced in mantle reversed, dexter gules issuant from base a cross patriarchal Or, in chief Or a broadsword palewise sable, the point to base, and sinister vert three ears of wheat bendwise sinister of the second surmounted in base by a sickle argent.

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