Coat of Arms
| The oak tree in the coat of arms symbolize the formerly big oak forests of Dreieich (three oaks). The escutcheon in the middle shows a combination of the coat of arms of the Counts of Isenburg in the left and the wheel of Mainz in the right, as the districts area belonged to these two counties in the past. |
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