sentences:  The “bend sinister wavy argent” (that is, broad silver slanted stripe) is canting for the village's name, symbolizing as it does a broad brook (the literal meaning of “Breitenbach”).The charge above this is the Zweibrücken lion, a reference to the village's former allegiance to that state.On the other side of the bend sinister wavy is an ear of grain representing agriculture, and the field tincture on this side, sable (black), recalls the coalmining that was once common in Breitenbach.