| Type: | Gemeinde |
| Schmitt | |
| Image Coa: | DEU Schmitt COA.svg |
| Coordinates: | 50.1667°N 7.015°W |
| Image Plan: | Schmitt in COC.svg |
| State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| District: | Cochem-Zell |
| Verbandsgemeinde: | Ulmen |
| Elevation: | 420 |
| Area: | 2.71 |
| Postal Code: | 56825 |
| Area Code: | 02677 |
| Licence: | COC |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 35 078 |
| Mayor: | Wilfried Linden[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Schmitt is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Ulmen, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The municipality lies in the southern Eifel, roughly 1.5 km southwest of Alflen and 8 km northwest of the river Moselle at Bremm.
The placename Schmitt comes from the German word Schmied, which means the same as – and is cognate with – the English word “smith”. Before the mid 18th century, the southern Eifel was an iron ore production centre of Europe-wide importance. The rivers and streams were harnessed to work the smiths’ bellows, and the forests afforded the needed firewood.
Beginning in 1794, Schmitt lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[2]
Schmitt's mayor is Wilfried Linden, and his deputy is Andreas Peifer.[3]
The municipality's arms might be described thus: A pale Or charged with a broadsword palewise sable, the hilt to the chief, between vert an oak sprig slipped bendwise sinister leafed of four and fructed of two of the first, and gules three ears of wheat surmounted in base by a sickle of the first.
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: