der Rechten einen silbernen schwebenden Anker segnend, zu seinen Füßen einen silbernen Schild, darin ein roter Adler, hinter dem ein Bischofstab schräglinks zu sehen ist. The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure Saint Nicholas in trian aspect proper vested and mitred Or, in his sinister hand a bishop’s staff of the same, his dexter hand raised in benediction over an anchor argent, surmounting his legs an inescutcheon of the same charged with an eagle displayed gules surmounting a bishop’s staff bendwise sinister of the first. The bishop who stands as the main charge in the municipality’s arms is the church’s patron saint, Nicholas, who was also the Brauweiler Monastery’s patron saint, and to whom Archbishop Egilbert of Trier consecrated Mesenich’s first chapel on 18 November 1088. The charge that Nicholas is “blessing”, the anchor, stands for the village's sailing men and shipbuilders of yore. The inescutcheon at the saint's feet is the Brauweiler Monastery's arms, thus representing the municipality's former feudal lords, who also held court jurisdiction. The arms were designed by H. Gutensohn of Koblenz and have been borne since 7 March 1952. Culture and sightseeing Buildings The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Saint Nicholas’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus) – Romanesque west tower, possibly about 1200, upper part possibly Late Gothic, possibly about 1480; Baroque aisleless nave, marked 1733, sacristy, marked 168(8?); grave cross, 18th century; graveyard, Coronation of the Virgin group, 18th century; warriors’ memorial with relief as gateway arch, 1920s; whole complex with church and graveyard Village centre (monumental zone) – from Römerstraße to the Old School on Briederweg, along Abteistraße and Zehnthofstraße including church and graveyard cast-iron hand pump, late 19th century Abteistraße 6 – solid building, 17th or 18th century Abteistraße 7 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, hipped roof, dendrochronologically dated to 1478/1479 and 1486, expansions in the 18th and early 20th centuries; addition; commercial building with mediaeval entrance; whole complex Abteistraße 8 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, half-hipped roof, roof trusses about 1470/1480, conversion possibly in the 18th century Abteistraße/Römerstraße – barn, about 1480 Briederner Weg – cast-iron hand pump, late 19th century Briederner Weg 1 – solid building, partly timber-frame, dendrochronologically dated to 1529/1530 Briederner Weg 2 – cast-iron hand pump, late 19th century Briederner Weg 10 – old school; quarrystone building, 1886/1887 Briederner Weg 11 –