Briedern

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[3]

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess argent a vine issuant from the line of partition in dexter and embowed to dexter, leafed of three and fructed of two, all proper, and azure in base water of the first in which a wooden boat proper, the prow to sinister and ensigned with a cross.

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

• Saint Servatius’s Catholic Church (Servatiuskirche), Moselstraße 14 – Late Romanesque west tower, 13th century, Late Gothic cupola, nave from latter half of 15th century (essentially Romanesque?), sacristy from latter half of 16th century with timber-frame upper structure from 1592, Crucifixion group, wayside cross (?) from 1687; whole complex with graveyard
• Hauptstraße 2 – old school, quarrystone building from about 1900
• Hauptstraße 7 – solid building, essentially possibly mediaeval, in the gable a late mediaeval window, hearth
• Hauptstraße/corner of Römerstraße – grave cross from 1776
• Moselstraße 12 – solid building bearing, among other yeardates, 1546, 16th/17th century, timber-frame wing with twinned windows, cross integrated into the masonry
• Moselstraße 22 – timber-frame house, partly solid from 1665, half-hipped roof from 17th century
• Moselstraße 16-19, Servatiusstraße 1 (monumental zone) – Late Historicist plastered buildings from 1900-1910
• Rathausstraße 2 – former school, solid building from 16th/17th century
• Schmiedegasse 2 – plastered quarrystone building, essentially late mediaeval
• Vineyard chapel, southeast of the village on the Wahlberg – quarrystone building, 19th century[4]
• Servatius-Brunnen – spring
• Altes Backeshaus – “Old Bakehouse”