yielded to winegrowing. Tourists began coming, and the municipality opened a campground. By the mid 1960s, old barns and storehouses were being turned into guest accommodations. There was a further building boom in the late 20th century which brought holiday homes. Under the Verwaltungsvereinfachungsgesetz (“Administration Simplification Law”) of 18 July 1970, with effect from 7 November 1970, the municipality was grouped into the Verbandsgemeinde of Zell. In 1984, the municipality was awarded the title “Prettiest Village in the Regierungsbezirk of Koblenz”. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Mayor Pünderich's mayor is Rainer Nilles. Coat of arms The municipality's arms might be described thus: Gules two bendlets surmounting two bendlets sinister Or. Culture and sightseeing Buildings The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Graveyard, Hauptstraße – Chapel to Our Lady of Sorrows (Kapelle zur schmerzhaften Muttergottes); aisleless church, marked 1612, in the steep gable a Baroque Madonna; coat of arms of Elector of Trier Lothar von Metternich (1599-1623); Assumption of Mary, before which a modern Bildstock with Crucifixion relief, 18th or 19th century Saint Mark the Evangelist’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Markus Evangelist), Kirchstraße – Baroque aisleless church, marked 1766, architect Paul Stehling (or Stähling), Strasbourg, adjustments by Johann Seiz; old churchyard wall; whole complex Bahnhofstraße 2 – former school; quarrystone building, early 20th century Bahnhofstraße 4 – quarrystone building, partly timber-frame, half-hipped roof, Swiss chalet style, about 1900/1910; whole complex Brunnenstraße 3 – quarrystone building, old measuring standards and office for calibrating barrels, centre for weights and measures Eltzerstraße 1 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century Eltzerstraße 5 – timber-frame house, partly solid, early 18th century Eltzerstraße 7 – timber-frame house, partly solid, marked 1603 (possibly a conversion), essentially possibly from the 16th century Eltzerstraße 19 – Eltzer Hof; late mediaeval plastered building, 16th or 17th century; one-floor timber-frame barn Hauptstraße – Alter Friedhof (“Old Graveyard”); warriors’ memorial, chapel with relief; graveyard cross, marked 1895 Hauptstraße 30 – quarrystone villa, about 1900/1910, in the back considerably older timber-frame house, plastered Hauptstraße 33 – winemaker's villa; building with mansard roof, about 1910, cellar/winepress house with Expressionist gable; whole complex Hauptstraße 63 – old school (?); quarrystone building, latter half of the 19th century Hauptstraße 65 –