  In this paper we study embeddings between de Branges-Rovnyak spaces $H(b)$
and harmonically weighted Dirichlet spaces $\mathcal{D}(\mu)$ in terms of the
boundary spectrum of $b$ and the support of the measure $\mu$, by using
elementary reproducing kernel estimates. We completely characterize the
embedding between the model spaces $K_u$ and the local Dirichlet spaces
$\mathcal{D}_\zeta$, and we discuss some applications.
