The composition is drawn from an old seal from 1741. In an earlier version, the posts stood on a red wall, which may have been meant to depict a well. This would have been a canting charge for the placename element "—born", which means “well” (although "Brunnen" is the usual German word for this today). The version in force today has been borne since 1983 when it was approved by the now defunct Rheinhessen-Pfalz "Regierungsbezirk" administration in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.