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Deutsche Wappen (Gemeindewappen/Kreiswappen) German Civic Heraldry CRAMBERG State : Rheinland-Pfalz District (Kreis) : Rhein-Lahnkreis (until 1969 Unterlahnkreis) Verbandsgemeinde : Diez Origin/meaning: The arms have not officially been granted, but have been used for several decades by the municipality. The arms show a bird, described as a canting Krammetsvogel, the local name for a Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris). The bird appeard in the local seals from the 19th and early 20th century. The colours were not known, but were designed in 1956. The oldest seal of the village dates from 1558 and shows a variation of the arms of the Lords of Westerburg as the villge at the time was part of the Schaumburg estate, which was a possession of the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg, later Leiningen-Schaumburg. Literature : Hessisches Wappenbuch, 1956

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