Coat of arms of Arboga
Arboga’s arms show a black eagle on silver, with a six-pointed gold star on each wing joint.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en svart örn med röd näbb med röd tunga med röda ben belagd med två sexuddiga stjärnor 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
- 13 June 1969: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal guidelines describe a black eagle with a red beak, tongue and legs, together with two six-pointed gold stars.
Source: Arboga kommun: Riktlinjer för kommunvapen och logotyp
Background in the municipal sources
Arboga says the town seal is known from 1330. The stars were added later to distinguish the arms from similar eagle designs; the arms were established for the town in 1969 and registered in 1974.
Source: Arboga kommun: Riktlinjer för kommunvapen och logotyp
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
- Sable
- eagle
- mullet of six points
- two
- 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.
