The “chequy” field is a reference to the village's former allegiance, until 1437, to the County of Sponheim. The charge in the quarter, the abbot's staff, reminds one that the abbot and preacher Bernard of Clairvaux was on the way from Rome to Cologne about 1150 and is also believed to have visited Hildegard of Bingen with whom he was corresponding by letter. Abbot Bernard was the most important monk of the Cistercian order. He is still the local Catholic church's patron saint. The other charge, the overflowing cup, is linked with a local legend. It symbolizes the “Arm Seel”, the former village spring at the “Freier Platz” (square). As to why this spring was so called – it is a form of the German words "arme Seele", meaning “poor soul” – there was originally disagreement about what to call it. It was thus decided that it would take its name from the first stranger who drank water from it. One day, a stranger did indeed come along and take a drink from it to quench his thirst. After he had done so, he supposedly said out of joy “"Das erquickt die Arm Seel"” (“That refreshes the poor soul”).