image author: Sebastian Schäfer

On the blue and gold inclined escutcheon grows a silver tower from the upper half, below an askew blue horseshoe, at the emblem's foot a blue hill.

The tower points to the Barthäuser barbican, the blue horseshoe remembers the village's blacksmith who carried out important services along the trade route. The blue hill at the emblem's bottom symbolises the villages 'on the blue hill'. The emblem's colours underline the bond with Braunschweig.

image author: Wikipedia

The first recording of the village as Bartoldeshusen was in the year 1245. The name probably derived from the House of Barthold.

The barbican being part of the then Einbeck defencive dike which run along the village was first mentioned as Bartshäuser tower in the year 1439. It was pulled down in the year 1895. Until then it marked the border between the duchy Braunschweig and the kingdom Hanover.

Bartshausen became a district of the town Einbeck through incorporation in 1974.