The legend about the emblem of the Ysenburger

The emblem of the sovereign to Ysenburg and Büdingen consists of two black bars on a white alternatively silver background. The history of the emblem came up in the time of Barbarossa: At a winterly time, Emperor Barbarossa was in the Büdinger forest with his shoot as he was separated from them. Lost he strayed through the forest until he meet a charburner at a rivulet. Emperor Barbarossa asked him the way. With his coal blackened fingers he drew him the way out of the forest into the snow – two black bars on a white background.