It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Ulmen, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the Eifel, about 1.5 km south of Wollmerath.

With the occupation of the Rhine’s left bank by French Revolutionary troops in 1794, the Electorate of Trier, for centuries the local overlord, fell.

[3] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Vert issuant from base two ears of rye, one bendwise, the other bendwise sinister, crossing each other per saltire in chief Or, between which a waterwheel spoked of seven argent, in base a sinister hand in fess dorsed proper holding two candles per saltire of the second.

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