For centuries before this, the Große Nister, flowing between the two places, marked not only a political boundary, but a dialectal and religious one, too.

The hexagon and the miner's hammers symbolize the rich basalt deposits and their exploitation as the community's characteristic industry and livelihood.

The wavy parting per pale represents the community's location on the Nister, with Büdingen on the left and Erbach on the right.

After the Erbach-Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)-Fehl-Ritzhausen railway line was shut down in 1971, the bridge was preserved as a technological building monument.

The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.