Elzweiler belonged until 1595 to the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves of Kyrburg, and thereafter to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, both of whose lords bore the lion as an heraldic device, the Palatines a gold one on a black field, and the Waldgraves a red one on a gold field. The current armorial design combines the anchor seal mentioned by Hupp (which apparently can no longer be confirmed) and the lion charge borne by the village's former lords. The Waldgraves’ red-on-gold version was adopted because it otherwise so seldom crops up in Palatine heraldry, and also, especially, because it was felt that using the Palatinate-Zweibrücken gold-on-black version would have made it necessary to modify the tinctures.