The municipality lies in the Eifel roughly 6 km south of Ulmen.

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.

In 1815 Wollmerath was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.

[1] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Azure issuant from base a wall flanked by towers domed argent, the wall charged with a cross Latin bottony reversed with a fifth button midway along the upper arm sable, in chief three annulets, two and one, between two ears of wheat palewise Or.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Saint Mary Magdalene's Church also has a 250-year-old organ.