Among the members of the Jewish community was Isidor Triefus, the founder of the diamond-cutting industry in the village. As early as 1927, the by now long empty synagogue was auctioned off. By 1933 at the onset of the notoriously antisemitic Third Reich, there were ten Jews still living in the village, most of whom emigrated soon afterwards. Only the family Straaß stayed, whose fate was most unfortunate. In 1940, they were deported by the Nazis to Gurs internment camp in Gurs in the southwest of France, whence they were further transported in 1942 to Auschwitz. Only two family members survived the Holocaust. They were brother and sister, Walter and Mildrut (Mildred) who later emigrated to the United States. The council is made up of 17 council members (15 plus Mayor and Deputy Mayor), who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 26 May 2019. The election yielded the following composition of the Municipal Council (Ortsgemeinderat):  CDU (8), SPD (2), Free Independent Group (3), Independent Group Blees (2). Brücken's mayor is Pius Klein, who was reelected in the local elections of 26 May 2019 with 79,29% of the vote. His deputy (1. Beigeordneter) is Johannes Huber. The municipality's arms might be described thus: Sable issuant from base a bridge arched of two Or masoned of the field, surmounting the middle spandrel a diamond shining proper, upon the bridge a lion passant of the second armed, langued and crowned gules holding in his dexter prang a miner's hammer of the second. The charge in the upper half of the escutcheon is the Palatine Lion. He holds, raised up in his right forepaw, a golden miner's hammer. The lion is walking along a stone bridge with two arches upon whose middle spandrel is a shining diamond. The bridge itself is a canting charge for the municipality's name, Brücken ("bridge" is "Brücke" in German). Moreover, the municipality was named for an actual bridge. The Palatine Lion refers to Brücken's 350-year history as a holding of Electoral Palatinate. The tool in the lion's paw symbolizes the village's history as a coalmining centre. The local economic mainstay was for roughly a century diamond cutting, to which the diamond charge alludes.