Coat of Arms
The German blazon reads: In Grün durch silbernen, schräglinken Wellenbalken geteilt; vorne eine silberne Kapelle, hinten ein silbernes Hufeisen, begleitet von zwei silbernen, fünfstrahligen Sternen.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Vert a bend sinister wavy, dexter a chapel, sinister a horseshoe between two mullets of five all in bend sinister, all argent.
The chapel on the dexter (armsbearer’s right, viewer’s left) side refers to the one still standing today not far from Steiningen, where once stood the small village of Allscheid, whose inhabitants forsook their homes in 1852 and emigrated to the United States. The bend sinister wavy (the slanted stripe) symbolizes the Altbach, which lends character to the local scenery. The horseshoe and the two mullets of five (star shapes) stand for the municipality’s patron saint, Saint Maurice, who is also patron saint of horses. These charges also refer to the custom, traceable to 1749, of the horse blessing.
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