The fess with two chequered rows (“countercompony”) is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the County of Sponheim, while the charge above this, the plough, symbolizes Ippenschied's status as a farming village. The other charge, the billhook (actually, the German blazon specifies a “clearing knife” that looks like a billhook), is a canting element, for one word used in German for a billhook is "Hippe", suggesting the first part of the name “Ippenschied” (although in German, as in English, the letter H is pronounced).