Justification of the coat of arms: The diagonal division of gold and red shows the coat of arms of the Lords of Hiltpoltstein-Rothenberg, who were ministerials in the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the Staufer ministerials. After the marriage of the last Hiltpold's heir to Dietrich I von Wildenstein, the Rothenberger line of the Wildenstein family took over the coat of arms at the end of the 13th century.

The shield with the Nuremberg coat of arms refers to Hiltpoltstein's affiliation to the imperial city of Nuremberg from 1503 to 1806. Place seals with the Nuremberg coat of arms in the shield have only been known since the early 17th century. The oldest known seal has the inscription "DES MARCKTS HILTPOLTSTEIN INSIG" and the coat of arms in the design that is still valid today. After the imperial city of Nuremberg was incorporated into the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, the Nuremberg coat of arms disappeared from the Hiltpoltstein official seal.

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