 Above the Town Hall entrance with its coat of arms and year 1751 was a niche in which it is believed a statue of the local patron saint, Stephen, once stood; since the French Revolution it had stood empty.Only in 1931 was a Madonna figure – "Mary Mother of Peace" – put there on council member Dr. Franz Usinger's motion to give thanks for the freeing of the Rhineland by Allied troops.During the Third Reich, the figure had to be taken down until it could assume its place once again when the Second World War ended in 1945.