[3] Maisborn has the highest elevation of any municipality in the Verbandsgemeinde of Emmelshausen – 508 m above sea level.

Evidence shows that it was later held by the Lords of Milwalt, who in 1330 enfeoffed Archbishop of Trier Baldwin with half of the Maisborn Court.

[6] The German blazon reads: Gespalten vorne in Schwarz ein rotbewehrter, -gezungter und -gekrönter goldener Löwe, hinten unter blau-gold geschachtem Feld in Silber ein blauer Schalenbrunnen mit geteiltem Wasserstrahl.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per pale sable a lion rampant Or armed, langued and crowned gules, and argent a basin fountain with divided stream of water issuant therefrom azure under a chief in sinister only countercompony of the last and the second.

The countercompony (that is, with two chequered rows) “half-chief” – something never seen in English heraldry – on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side recalls the village's former allegiance to the “Further” County of Sponheim, which bore arms “chequy” (that is, with the escutcheon’s whole field chequered) in these two tinctures (blue and gold).