Schumacher also cites a Dr. Beestermöller who believes that the root may be a Celtic reference to wetlands.

[3] Somewhat outside the village as it stands today, near the brook, there was supposedly a find that might have been of some importance, some stone remains that might have pointed to very early settlers in the area.

They might have been from an early settlement, farm or oil mill established before the Franks took over the land, but nothing is certain.

[1] The German blazon reads: Das Wappen geteilt von Silber und Grün.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess argent a spearhead sable and a staff ensigned with a fleur-de-lis azure per saltire, the whole surmounted by a rose abased gules, and vert an urn with two handles within, issuant from base, the stones of a barrow, all of the first.

In 1278, the nearby Rosenthal Cistercian Convent, whose armorial bearing was the rose, thus explaining the charge surmounting the other two, was drawing income from the farms in the municipality.