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.

Fifty years later, in 1193, Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor reconfirmed the Monastery's holdings.

The museum's investigation found that the body lay in a log halved lengthwise and hollowed out to form a kind of coffin.

The graves found in Winkel are characteristic of the so-called older Hunsrück-Eifel Culture of the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

In the Middle Ages, the estate of Oberwinkel and the outlying centre of Niederwinkel belonged to the Lordship of Wollmerath and its attendant court jurisdiction.

The Oberwinkel estate's importance can also be established by its having its own 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), which was even confirmed in writing and notarized by the Springiersbach Monastery on 13 January 1494.

Laid out in the Weistum is the age-old law passed down by word of mouth, renewed each year at the Dingtag before the whole community so that it would last through the generations.

The feudal lord, Ludwig Zandt, appealed in 1630, during the war, to the Elector in Trier to avert the occupation of the "Imperial Baronial Region of Wollmerath".

Both the estate of Oberwinkel and the farmers at Niederwinkel were obliged to yield up great amounts of produce to the occupying French forces.

Even the chapel was threatened with downfall – albeit from disrepair, not by development – before the little church was restored with support from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the district, the Ortsgemeinde and private donors.

It was mentioned on the occasion of its leasing in 1555 to Franz and Christina Sommer, but was likely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Gules a chevron humetty between three annulets argent, on a chief of the second tongs fesswise of the first.

Winkel belonged to the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun, which inspired the choice of tinctures, argent and gules (silver and red), which were the ones borne by Trier.