Coat of arms and flag thumb|100px|left|Coat of arms of 1766 with eagle and eel Aalen's coat of arms depicts a black eagle with a red tongue on golden background, having a red shield on its breast with a bent silver eel on it. Eagle and eel were first acknowledged as Aalen's heraldic animals in the seal of 1385, with the eagle representing the town's imperial immediacy. After the territorial reform, it was bestowed again by the Administrative District of Stuttgart on 16 November 1976.
Coat of arms and flag thumb|100px|left|Coat of arms of 1766 with eagle and eel Aalen's coat of arms depicts a black eagle with a red tongue on golden background having a red shield on its breast with a bent silver eel on it. Eagle and eel were first acknowledged as Aalen's heraldic animals in the seal of 1385, with the eagle representing the town's imperial immediacy After the territorial reform, it was bestowed again by the Administrative District of Stuttgart on 16 November 1976.