Municipal representation (last municipal election: 14 March 2021)
Coat of arms Lahntal's civic coat of arms might be described thus: In gules an inescutcheon showing the shield of the
Teutonic Knights (in argent a cross sable), laid over a fess wavy argent; behind the inescutcheon tilted dexter and turned sinister an abbess's staff Or with velum argent; spangled with seven trefoils, three above the fess and four below. The coat of arms was adopted as part of the municipal reform in Hesse, and the wavy fess represents the municipality's namesake river. The
clovers represent the seven constituent municipalities within Lahntal's bounds; moreover, the abbess's staff stands for Caldern, where there was once a
convent, and the Teutonic Knights' shield stands for Goßfelden, which lies south of the river Lahn.
Municipal partnerships •
Stara Kiszewa,
Poland •
Sussargues,
France Lahntal has been partnered since 6 April 1986 with the municipality of Sussargues, which lies in the department of
Hérault in southern France, right near
Montpellier (about 17 km) and the Mediterranean Sea. Lahntal and Sussargues lie about 1 050 km apart. Between the Polish municipality of
Stara Kiszewa and Lahntal, a municipality partnership was ceremoniously sealed in Poland on 10 January 2005. The underwriting of the intercommunal deal in Lahntal took place on 26 May 2006. Stara Kiszewa has about 6,200 inhabitants in some 20 centres, some quite small, and is in the
powiat of Kościerzyna, about 80 km south of
Gdańsk and 80 km west of
Malbork in the tourist region of
Kashubia. ==Culture and Sightseeing==