[2] Celtic grave mounds and their goods, from the Hallstatt culture and dated to around 750 BC, were found in the municipal area.[when?

][3] Upper and Lower Reute were possessions of the Landgraviate of Breisgau [de] until they were mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1805.

[4] The municipality (Gemeinde) of Reute is the smallest in Emmendingen district of Baden-Württemberg, one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany.

[4] Reute's coat of arms displays that of Austria, impaled with a field of blue that houses a yellow plowshare.

This pattern was devised by the Karlsruhe General State Archives [de] in 1906 and subsequently adopted by Reute's municipal council.