Therefore, the municipality legally had no arms, nor even a seal. According to Otto Hupp in his "Die Wappen und Siegel der deutschen Städte, Flecken und Dörfer, Heft 7: Die Ortswappen und Gemeindesiegel der Rheinpfalz" (1928) p. 36, though, a 1738 legal document was sealed with the "Eltzweiler Gemein Siegel" ("Siegel" means “seal” in German), which bore an anchor as its only device. Hupp then drew an unofficial coat of arms, but it was "In Blau ein goldener Adler" (“Azure an eagle Or”, that is, a blue field charged with a gold eagle).