The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Tierced in mantle, dexter gules a bell Or, sinister vert a plough of the second and in base argent a lion rampant azure armed and langued of the first. The lion refers to the Counts of Veldenz, who had an allodial holding in the village as early as 1257. The charge on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side, the bell, comes from a local folktale that tells of how monks from the Schwarzen Monastery kept their bells from being seized by the warring parties in the Thirty Years' War by putting them underwater in the brook. The plough on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side recalls agriculture, which over centuries was Schwarzen's livelihood. The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: