At the mayoral election on 25 April 2004, the independent Willi Keil, who has been in the mayor's office since 1986, was reelected unopposed with 97.2% of the vote.
The community's arms might heraldically be described thus: Party per saltire, above gules a Hiberno-Scottish cross (called an Iroschottenkreuz in the German blazon) argent, below gules a Maltese cross argent, dexter and sinister argent a mullet of six gules.