The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[3]
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.
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
Saint Mary Magdalene'sCatholic Church (Kirche St. Maria Magdalena), Hauptstraße – Romanesque tower, Baroqueaisleless church, marked 1732; graveyard with wall: sandstone cross; basalt quarrystone chapel; cross and tomb slabs, 1721 and 18th century; basalt Station of the Cross, Bildstock form, 19th century; whole complex with church and graveyard
Auf der Burg 1 – plastered building with round-arched cellar portal, 18th century, possibly older
Hauptstraße – wayside chapel; basalt block building, 19th century
Hauptstraße 31 – rectory; building with hipped roof, marked 1719
Hauptstraße 42 – building with hipped mansard roof, 18th century
Kirchweg 5 – former school; timber-frame building, partly solid or slated, 19th century
On Landesstraße (State Road) 102, going towards Wagenhausen – Heiligenhäuschen (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints); Trinity relief with sponsor, 17th century
On Landesstraße 102, going towards Wagenhausen – wayside chapel[4]
Saint Mary Magdalene's Church also has a 250-year-old organ.
