Sonnenberg-Winnenberg

Also belonging to Sonnenberg-Winnenberg are the outlying homesteads of Birkensiedlung, Hohensteiner Hof and Schlesierhof.

[1] The German blazon reads: Unter rot-silbern geschachtem Schildhaupt in Blau eine aufsteigende schwarze Spitze, belegt mit einem goldenem ‚W‘, im Feld eine goldene durch die Spitze begrenzte Sonne.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure the sun Or rising from behind a pile transposed sable, itself charged with the letter W of the second, the chief countercompony gules and argent.

The chief with its countercompony pattern (that is, with two chequered rows) is a reference to the village’s former allegiance to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, Oberamt of Birkenfeld, while the “pile transposed” (that is, wedge-shaped charge stretching up from the base instead of down from the chief) and the sun behind it are a canting composition for one constituent community’s name, Sonnenberg, whose name in German means “Sun Mountain”.

[5] Running to the northwest of the municipality is Bundesstraße 41, which towards the south leads to the Autobahn A 62 (Kaiserslautern–Trier).

Coat of arms
Coat of arms