gespalten in Grün, vorne ein silberner Grabhügel mit Urne, hinten eine goldene Ährengarbe. The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per pale Or a barrow of stones within which an urn argent and vert a garb of the first, on a chief of the second a cross gules surmounted by a fleur-de-lis of the first. The translation “argent” as the tincture for the barrow and the urn is based on the German blazon, and indeed the arms shown at the municipality's own website show these charges in silver. The red cross on silver borne in the chief is Electoral Trier's old armorial bearing. The Electorate was the village's former overlord. The golden lily is Mary's attribute, thus representing the municipality's and the church's patron saint, which Mary has been ever since the first chapel was built. The barrow with the urn inside stands for early settlement in what is now the municipality, and for the barrows from prehistory and early history found in the “Linnif” district. The golden wheat sheaf (“garb” in heraldry) recalls that the village arose from an agricultural estate. Agriculture, alongside other businesses that have set up shop, is still important to Zilshausen today. The arms have been borne since 1986. Culture and sightseeing Buildings The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Zilshausen (main centre) Catholic Chapel to Our Lady of Sorrows (Katholische Kapelle Zur Schmerzhaften Muttergottes) – aisleless church, quarrystone, marked 1847 Balduinseck 2 – Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street); timber-frame building, partly solid or slated, hipped mansard roof, 18th century Petershäuser Hof Saint Mary Magdalene's Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Maria Magdalena), Hauptstraße 12 – Gothic Revival aisleless church, quarrystone, 1903-1905, architect Peter Marx, Trier Graveyard – graveyard cross, 1857; grave cross, 1751 Chapel to the Holy Trinity (Kapelle Zur Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit) – aisleless church, 18th and 19th centuries Sport and leisure The Hunsrück-Mosel-Radweg, a cycling path, runs through the municipality. References External links Municipality’s official webpage Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis