 The bend sinister wavy (diagonal wavy stripe) refers to the village's namesake brook, the Nußbach.The hazelnuts in the green field are canting for the village's name ("Nuß" is German for “nut”).The tinctures vert and argent (green and silver) are the ones formerly borne by the Lords of Reipoltskirchen, who were the local lords of Nußbach before the French Revolution.