 This description is based on the arms shown in this article.However, the German blazon specifies that the lion (which is the Lion of Hesse, the main charge in Hesse's state coat of arms) should be a "neun Mal von Silber und Rot geteilter Löwe", or “barry of nine”, that is, with nine horizontal stripes.Popular sports are practised in town by TV Sontra 1861 e.V.