Coat of arms of the municipality of Abentheuer

Adventure Rhineland-Palatinate
Blazon
"A silver casting crucible over a red and silver shafted shield base in green, accompanied by two slanted and counter-slanted golden rye ears."
Basic data
Legal basis:	Decision of the municipal council and decree of the Ministry of the Interior
Supporting documents:	Ministerial decision of April 27, 1965

The Abentheuer community has had its own coat of arms since 1965. It shows a silver casting crucible accompanied by two golden ears of rye over a red and silver nested shield base on a green field .

Coat of arms history

The award of the coat of arms took place as part of the idea promoted by the Birkenfeld district office in the first half of the 1960s to design coats of arms for all communities in the district. When designing the coat of arms, a reference to the former territorial and local lords was expressly requested.

According to the coat of arms plan of the district, the red and silver chess from the coat of arms of the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim , to which the areas belonged until their division in 1776, was used as a connecting element in the shield base for the communities of the former Oberamt Birkenfeld .

The silver casting crucible refers to the town's ore smelter , which existed from the 17th century to 1875, and the ears of corn attached to the importance of agriculture in the community.

The Ministry of the Interior of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate approved the use of the coat of arms by decree of April 27, 1965.

literature

• District of Birkenfeld, Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz (Hrsg.): Wappenbuch des Landkreis Birkenfeld. Self-published by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Archives Administration, Koblenz 1966