The two-headed eagle in the upper part of the escutcheon refers to a relationship between the municipality and St. Maximin's Abbey in Trier. The Kapelle Noyn (“Nohn Chapel”) supposedly once belonged to the Abbey, according to a falsified, but presumably factually correct, document from 970. There is a further clue to a relationship between the two in a reference from 1759 that names the Abbey as the body with tithing rights to the village. The lower half of the arms is charged with a sword, Saint Martin's attribute, thus representing the municipality's and the church's patron saint.
