The municipal coat of arms Kastel had over the centuries no consistent look. A seal from 1508 shows an image of St. George. In contrast, on a seal from the 17th Council century to see split-Baroque shield two shells. In the book "Coat of arms of cities of the Grand Duchy of Hesse" of 1843, a shell is shown with eight ribs. In a 1885 published by J. Armorial sieve is to read out the image up to modern times coat of arms from a silver shell with eight ribs in a red box and the shield is a red crown are gold plated tips. In the book "Rheinhessen, past and present," said Karl Johann Beilmeyer of 1905, the arms of Bernkastel is a mussel was in the red sign with a golden Marie-crown was battlements. Prior to the incorporation of Mainz Kastel after had the shell on the arms of 22 ribs. A photo of 1 April 1908, the date of incorporation shows that Kasteler town house with a shell with seven ribs. Published in 1960 by Gottfried Dorr history book contains a shell with mural crown. On the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of Kastel was 1990, the shell on the coat of arms also supplemented with a mural crown on which they wanted to recall the fortification of Châtel. What symbolizes the shell on the crest Kasteler is controversial. On the one hand, it is, it should have been a scallop, how they as a souvenir of a pilgrimage to the legendary grave of St. Jacob († 44 AD) in Santiago de Compostela near the Atlantic coast (Spain) had brought. In Kastel almost 1000 years was a long "Jacob Brotherhood". On the other hand, it indicates the shell on the coat of arms as a symbol of the rafters and Faerch (rowing boat traffic). The shell was presented in the course of time, with nine or twelve ribs and changing colors.
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