council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Mayor Meisburg’s mayor is Anja Rieker. Coat of arms The German blazon reads: Von silber über schwarz geteilt, oben das kurtrierische Kreuz, unten ein rot-silber geschachtelter Schrägrechtsbalken. The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess argent a cross gules and sable a bend countercompony of the first and second. The cross above the line of partition is Electoral Trier’s old armorial bearing and represents Meisburg’s allegiance to Trier in feudal times. The bend countercompony (that is, slanted stripe chequered in two rows) is the charge borne by the Cistercians. This stands for the village’s former landholder, Saint Thomas’s Monastery, which held Meisburg from 1229 to 1794. Town partnerships Meisburg fosters partnerships with the following places: Schoppen, Liège, Belgium since 1967. Schoppen is a village within the municipality of Amel (or Amblève in French), and it lies in Belgium’s eastern German-speaking region. Culture and sightseeing Meisburg has an old sawmill, which is driven by an overshot waterwheel seven metres in diameter. The Schneidemühle (“cutting mill”), as it is known locally, is the Rhineland’s, and the Eifel’s, last preserved sawmill. The energy needed to drive it is afforded by a 350 m-long millpond. Notable structures in Meisburg include the following: Saint Bartholomew’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Bartholomäus), Kirchstraße 4, aisleless church from 1768, expanded in 1853. Auf dem Zuckerberg 2 – house, possibly later divided, from 1791, adjoining commercial building. Desserather Straße 1 – former rectory, stately building with roof with half-hipped gables, about 1800. Desserather Straße 3 – corner estate, house from 1810, stable-barn. Im Dümpel 8 – three-floor, five-axis Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), from 1850, expanded into estate along the street, two stable-barns, one from 1887, pump well. Kyllburger Straße 4 – house, possibly later divided, from 1791, adjoining commercial building. Sawmill, south of the village on the Lohsalm, former mill building, possibly from the 19th century. Wayside cross, south of the village on the road to Rascheid, red sandstone niche cross, from 1587, finial cross new. Wayside cross, northeast of the village near the sporting ground, shaft cross from 1774. Wayside cross, north of the village on a farm lane, red sandstone