Barrows from Late Hallstatt times with skeletal remains show that there were settlers quite early on.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Or a bend gules charged with three blocks argent between a flaying knife azure gripped of the second and an urn of the fourth.

The basic design, the red bend (slanted stripe) on the gold field, is the arms formerly borne by the Margraviate of Baden, Rödelhausen’s old overlord.

The blocks refer to Baden’s predecessors, the Counts of Sponheim, who bore “chequy” arms.

The urn refers to an archaeological find at a barrow from Late Hallstatt times.