Coat of Arms
With the certificate issued on 13 October 1992, the community of Kaden is now entitled to bear its own arms. The coat of arms was created from heraldist Manfred Limbach’s design and is based in history.
The community consisted of several centres in the Early Middle Ages and the Nassau-Diez family was for the most part the lordly rulers.
In Elben (1417 Uff der Elben), once a lordly village along the Elbbach, the Nüssel von Möllingen family was favoured with a Westerburg fief about 1450. In the coat of arms, the three bends with three golden orbs recall both noble families. Kaden (1559 zu Keuthen) consisted of several farms. at least one of which belonged to the von Brambach family. Their arms, the red bend sinister in the community’s coat of arms stands for Kaden, Elben and the von Brambach family.
In the constituent community of Grube Anna, there was brown coal pit mining until 1924. The mining charges in the community’s coat of arms, inverted and per saltire in silver a red hammer and sledge, stand for Grube Anna. The three constituent communities are also symbolized by the three bends and three golden orbs.
The Elbbach, which flows through the municipal area from north to south, on which the community is built and which is Elben’s namesake, is shown in the arms as wavy bendlets inside the bend sinister.
The tinctures red and silver witness Kaden’s allegiance to the Electorate of Trier from 1564 to 1802. Thereafter, Kaden passed to the Duchy of Nassau and as of 1866, Prussia as part of the province of Hesse-Nassau. This is shown in the arms by the Nassau tinctures of blue and gold.
The tight connection of the three Triertschlandgemeinden, Kaden and its neighbours Härtlingen and Kölbingen, within the parish of Kölbingen-Möllingen is also expressed in the three communities’ arms, all of which contain the charges of the lesser noble families who once held sway here along the Elbbach.
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