Coat of arms of Askersund
Askersund’s arms show a natural-coloured smith on a silver field, wearing silver clothes, black shoes and a blue hat, and holding a black sledgehammer.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en naturfärgad smed klädd av silver med svarta skor med blå hatt hållande en svart slägga.
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 distinguishes registry information from the municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1 October 1948: Royal confirmation on
- 4 April 1975: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record places a smith on a silver shield. It specifies silver clothing, black shoes, a blue hat and a black sledgehammer.
Source: Heraldica record 3199
Background in the municipal sources
Askersund Municipality says the town received its town privileges on 13 June 1643 and associates the smith raising his hammer with the town arms at that time. The record also lists royal confirmation in 1948 and registration in 1975.
Source: Askersunds kommun: Askersunds historia·Heraldica record 3199
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
- blacksmith
- field
- Argent
- Azure
- Sable
- Proper
- sledgehammer
- 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.
