1 March 1967. This recommendation was based on research done by Dr. Carl Knetsch (†1938), director of the municipal archives of Marburg, and by Hans Joachim von Brockhusen, an archivist and librarian. According to Knetsch and Brockhusen's research, the coat was originally the coat of arms of the lineage "von Allendorf (Aldindorf, Altendorf)," which ceased to exist in the 15th century. However, there has not been found any evidence yet for Knetsch and Brockhusen's conclusion that the municipal coat of arms earlier served as the coat of arms of that family. It remains unclear on which documentary basis Knetsch ascribes this coat of arms to the lineage von Allendorf. A draft of the arms which was found among his notes was probably based on a sandstone made relief which can be found at the church of Battenfeld and which probably dates from the 15th century. The relief is a marshalled coat of arms. On the left side (from the viewer's perspective) there is the coat of arms of the family von Biedenfeld, while on the right side there is the coat of arms that consists of the two half-moons and the star. A heraldic interpretation of this marshalled coat of arms could be that a man of the von Biedenfelds was married to a woman of a family that had the two crescents and the star in their coat of arms. Perhaps Knetsch concluded from a family tree of the von Biedenfelds and their engagement in building operations at the church that this must be the coat of arms of the von Allendorfs. Norbert Henkel, author of the chronicles of Allendorf, criticises that since the actual coat of arms of the family von Allendorf is not testified in records, the arms found at the church of Battenfeld cannot definitively be ascribed to a family von Allendorf. Therefore, the real origin of the municipal coat of arms remains unknown. According to Henkel, the coat of arms belongs to the family of a woman that married one of the von Biedenfelds. This couple must have been in one way or another engaged in the building or renovation of the church of Battenfeld. Politics Mayors Municipal council Allendorf's council is made up of 31 councillors, with seats apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 27 March 2011: CDU 11 seats SPD 9 seats FDP 1 seat BLO 10 seats Note: BLO