Binsfeld

The municipality lies in the South Eifel. The nearest middle centres are Wittlich and Bitburg. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wittlich-Land, whose seat is in Wittlich, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde.

The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[2]

The German blazon reads: In Silber und Rot geteiltem Schild oben ein rotes Balkenkreuz, unten ein sechsspeichiges goldenes Rad.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess argent a cross gules, and gules a wheel spoked of six Or.

The arms were taken from those borne by the now no longer existing Verbandsgemeinde of Binsfeld. The village was formerly ruled by the Electorate of Trier, whence comes the charge above the line of partition, Electoral Trier’s red cross on a silver field. The golden wheel stands for both agriculture and the huckster’s trade that was formerly widespread in Binsfeld. This was once paramount to the local commercial structure, as farming still is today.

Binsfeld was granted the right to bear its own arms in 1980.

Binsfeld fosters partnerships with the following places:

• Binsfeld, a constituent community of Arnstein, Main-Spessart, Bavaria since 1987

Binsfeld lies right on Bundesstraße 50 and Landesstraße (State Road) 46.