A blue shield with a silver three branches oak tree and leaves in ratio 8:7:8, accompanied from two fleur-de-lis Or. The arms were officially granted on April 24, 1961. The arms are canting and ahow an oak tree (Baum) and two fleur-de-lys for Mary of Burgund, duchess of Kleve. She founded the Birgittenkloster (monastery) in 1430 at once the place of pilgrimage too . After a legend from an sick shephard shown in a dream a statue of the Virgin Mary in a strangely shaped tree. He went out, found the tree and the village became an important place of pilgrimage. This is thus symbolised in the arms.
Habben, Hermann, Wappen, Siegel und Flaggen im Kreise Moers, Rheinberg 1962, S. 14 ff
Hermann Habben - constructed and added by Jürgen Krause