the community of geiselbach was acquired in 1296 by the seligenstadt monastery from the archbishopric of mainz for an undisclosed price. it thereby belonged along with the two neighbouring villages of hofstädten and omersbach to the vogtei of the "dreidörfer" (“three villages”) over which the monastery managed to get the landlordship and the low jurisdiction through the acquisition. the big a (abbatio) in the arms is the charge borne by the seligenstadt monastery and refers to the monastery’s lordship until secularization in 1802. the three mullets (stars) symbolize the three-village parish. the tinctures silver and red are electoral mainz’s colours and recall mainz’s lordship until 1803.