 The charge in these arms, the ox, is drawn from a former municipal seal.The same arms were once borne by the formerly West Prussian municipality of Schönlanke (now Trzcianka in northwest Poland, whose arms are still similar).The arms have been borne since 1969 when they were approved by the now defunct Rheinhessen-Pfalz "Regierungsbezirk" administration in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.