Coat of arms of Lørenskog
Lørenskog’s arms show a waterwheel.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record SV
The text below is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. Whether its wording is an official blazon has not been independently verified. The editorial text reports the municipality’s own explanation of the motif.
I fält av guld ett rött vattenhjul.
The waterwheel in the arms
Lørenskog Municipality identifies the waterwheel as the arms’ motif, names Carsten Lien as their designer and gives 26 July 1957 as the approval date. The Swedish description in the Heraldica record specifies a red wheel on a gold field; this registry wording has not been independently verified as an official blazon.
Source: Lørenskog kommune: kommunevåpenet·Heraldica record 3517
A motif linked to sawmilling
The municipality says it chose the waterwheel because timber extraction and sawmilling were major historic industries in Lørenskog, and the wheel powered the saw. In the municipality’s account, the motif can also represent a modern suburban municipality with industrial growth.
Sources and image rights
Heraldica record · Image file page on Wikimedia Commons · Wikidata
Wikimedia Commons lists this image as: Public domain
Creator listed on Commons: Own work This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape .
More image information
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Licence information for the Heraldica reference image: CC BY-SA 3.0. Rights information may differ between image sources.
Original by Carsten Lien, based upon image from caplex.no.