Coat of arms of Alingsås
Alingsås’s arms show a deer beneath a tree on a wooded slope.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en grön mark med därifrån uppväxande en grön ek överlagd med en gående röd hjort med krona av guld med tunga av guld med naglar av guld.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- (1640): Used as a seal as of
- 9 October 1953: Royal confirmation on
- 15 March 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipality’s history walk quotes an older description of a deer beneath a tree on a wooded slope. This source does not specify colours or a crown.
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality says the motif has appeared in the town arms since 1639. It assigns no further symbolic meaning to the deer or tree.
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Gules
- oak
- Vert
- stag
- terrace
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
