Coat of arms of Avesta
Avesta’s arms show a blue stream across silver, with a red iron mark above and a copper mark of the same colour below.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en balkvis ställd blå ström eller en genom vågskura bildad blå balk varöver ett rött järnmärke och varunder ett rött kopparmärke.
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
- 5 November 1920: Royal confirmation on
The arms and their blazon
The municipality describes either a blue stream or a blue wavy band, with the red marks placed on opposite sides of it.
Source: Avesta kommun: Avesta stadsvapen
Background in the municipal sources
Avesta connects the motifs with the local river landscape and iron and copper industries. This follows the municipality’s account without assigning additional meanings.
Source: Avesta kommun: Avesta stadsvapen
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
- bend
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- copper symbol
- iron symbol
- stream
- 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.
