the community of krombach was for the most part under the ownership of the counts of rieneck, and it was the seat of a court. the counts died out in 1559 and the community’s ownership passed to the archbishopric of mainz. in 1666, the court was acquired by the family of the barons – later counts – of schönborn. the community became the hub of the counts’ holdings in the upper kahl valley. the lion, drawn from the counts’ arms, recalls the time when they held sway. the barry (that is, horizontally striped) chief was taken from the arms borne by the earlier lords, the counts of rieneck. the tinctures gules and argent (red and silver) stem from the arms borne by electoral mainz, to which the community also once belonged.