 This same device can be seen on village boundary stones from 1750.Another source, though, has a different explanation for this charge, naming it a "Lohnen" and describing it as a tanner's scraping tool, although it, too, mentions the “linchpin” meaning, and also the meaning of a tool used to bark oaktrees (more useful to the barker than the tanner).The arms have been borne since 7 August 1980 when they were approved by the now defunct Rheinhessen-Pfalz "Regierungsbezirk" administration in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.