Since May 2008 Lioba Zieres (Freie Wählergemeinschaft) has led the community as the first woman to do so in any community in the old district of Gemünden. Municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to €440,000 (converted), of which net business taxes amounted to €63,000.
Coat of arms The community’s
arms might be described thus: A pale wavy argent, dexter gules in chief a scallop shell reversed of the first, in base dancetty of three of the first, sinister vert in chief a letter H, on whose cross stroke a figure of 4, in base a beech leaf in bend sinister of the first. The wavy pale stands for the river Sinn, the market community’s namesake. This river forms the geographical boundary between the
Spessart and the
Rhön. The three silver points in a red field, the so-called “Franconian rake”, recall the community’s long period of ownership by the Prince-Bishopric (
Hochstift) of Würzburg. The silver shell is
Saint James’s attribute, to whom the church in Obersinn is consecrated. The community’s rural character is represented by the
beech leaf and the
tincture vert (green). The ligature of the 4 and the H is an old boundary stone marker. It symbolized the four-lord
condominium in this area, to which Obersinn belonged (H stands for
Herr or
Herrschaft, German for “Lord” or “Lordship”). Lasting from 1447 on into the 19th century, this political arrangement defined the market community’s history. == Economy and infrastructure ==