Beltheim

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück. The municipality's main centre, also called Beltheim, is home to just under half its inhabitants and lies on a hilltop some 2 km north of the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders).

Beltheim’s Ortsteile, besides the main, namesake centre, are Frankweiler, Heyweiler, Mannebach, Schnellbach and Sevenich.

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Beltheim's mayor is Uwe Hammes.[3]

Each of the Ortsteile is headed by an official bearing the title Ortsvorsteher. They are Kornelia Kremer (Beltheim), Willi Görgen (Frankweiler), Mike Schneider (Heyweiler), Wolfgang Wagner (Mannebach), Heidi Gerhard (Schnellbach) and Ewald Braun (Sevenich).[4]

The German blazon reads: In gespaltenem, hinten geteiltem Schild vorn in Silber ein durchgehendes rotes Kreuz, hinten und oben ungezählt geschacht von Rot und Silber, unten und hinten drei silberne Hörner (2:1) in Rot.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per pale argent a cross gules, and per fess chequy of sixteen of the second and first and gules three bugle-horns of the first.

The red cross on silver on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side (Saint George's Cross) stands for the Electorate of Trier, while on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side, the “chequy” pattern in the same tinctures, stands for the comital family of Sponheim and the charge underneath that, the three bugles, also in the same tinctures, comes from the arms formerly borne by the Lords of Braunshorn.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

Heyweiler, Hauptstraße 17: Evangelical church

Mannebach, St.-Martin-Straße 26: Saint Martin’s Catholic Church

Sevenich, Lindenstraße 29: Saint Nicholas’s Catholic Church

• Saint Goar’s Catholic Church (Kirche St. Goar), Kirchstraße 1 – plinth, wayside cross, quire essentially from the 17th century, aisleless church 1740, conversion and new building 1955-1957; in the rectory garden a Romanesque plinth, possibly from the 13th century; beside the church a basalt wayside cross, marked 1767
• Hauptstraße 19 – former seat of the “three-lord” court, later rectory; timber-frame house, partly solid, hipped mansard roof, about 1700; shell niche with Madonna, marked 1760; fountain; barn, 19th century; whole complex of buildings
• Hauptstraße 22 – estate complex along the street; timber-frame house, partly slated; timber-frame barn, earlier half of the 19th century
• Kirchstraße 11 – timber-frame house, partly solid, earlier half of the 18th century
• At Lehnenstraße 11 – timber-frame Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), partly solid and slated, 19th century, barn; whole complex of buildings
• Uhler Weg – quarrystone chapel; marked 1853
• Grave cross, on Landesstraße 215 going towards Frankweiler, near the graveyard – cast iron, from the Rheinböllen ironworks, late 19th century

• Saint Maurice’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Mauritius), Rhein-Mosel-Straße 36 – Baroque aisleless church, 1724, marked 1756 (possibly a conversion), 1875 sacristy addition, 1906/1907 lengthened and remodelled; whole complex of buildings with graveyard
• (bei) Im Oberdorf 2 – chapel; plastered aisleless church, 19th century
• Im Vogelsang 1 – timber-frame house, partly solid, slated, earlier half of the 19th century; whole complex of buildings with barn
• Rhein-Mosel-Straße 15 – building with hipped mansard roof, partly timber-frame slated, first third of the 19th century
• Rhein-Mosel-Straße/corner of Zum Wiesentall – cast-iron fountain, from the Rheinböllen ironworks, latter half of the 19th century

• Evangelical church, Hauptstraße 17 – Baroque Revival plastered building, early 20th century; basalt warriors’ memorial; whole complex of buildings with graveyard
• Hauptstraße 9 – L-shaped estate; timber-frame house, partly slated, commercial wing, earlier half of the 19th century; whole complex of buildings
• Hauptstraße 27 – L-shaped estate; timber-frame house, partly slated, barn, earlier half of the 19th century; whole complex of buildings
• At Hauptstraße 39 – Classicist door, marked 1820

• Saint Martin's Catholic Church (Kirche St. Martin), St.-Martin-Straße 26 – Baroque aisleless church, 1767-1770, quire tower essentially Romanesque; three grave crosses, 1807, 1814 and 1815; tomb slab; graveyard and church whole complex of buildings
• St. Martin-Straße 19 – former rectory, later a school; Late Baroque building with hipped mansard roof, marked 1780, garden; whole complex of buildings

• Kapellenweg – quarrystone Heiligenhäuschen (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints); early 19th century

• Saint Nicholas’s Catholic Church (Kirche St. Nikolaus), Lindenstraße 29 – aisleless church, 1723-1725, vestibule marked 1923, sacristy 1949; three grave crosses, 1783, 18th and 19th century; whole complex of buildings with graveyard
• Lindenstraße – graveyard; basalt graveyard cross, marked 1844
• Lindenstraße 28 – L-shaped estate; timber-frame house, partly slated, earlier half of the 19th century, timber-frame barn; whole complex of buildings
• Lindenstraße 34 – estate complex along the street; timber-frame house, partly slated, half-hipped roof, 18th century, timber-frame barn; whole complex of buildings
• Grave crosses on Kreisstraße 34, south of the village – two cast-iron crosses from the Rheinböllen ironworks, latter half of the 19th century
• Passion Chapel (Passionskapelle) on Kreisstraße 34, south of the village – small building with hipped roof, marked 1725; wayside cross[5]

• Ewald Dietrich: Der Hausierer vom Hunsrück. Aus dem Leben des Josef Lippert. Simmern 1988 ISBN 3-922929-72-9
• Ortsgemeinde Beltheim (Hg.): Beltheim im Wandel der Zeit 893–1993. Aus der Geschichte eines Hunsrückdorfes; Beltheim 1993
• "Hering, so dick wie de Göring", Zeitungsartikel (HunsrückerZeitung?) vom Mittwoch, 20. Februar 1963