Coat of arms of Bengtsfors
Bengtsfors’s arms show a two-arched silver bridge with a caduceus above it on red.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält en uppstigande genomgående bro av silver med två valv varöver en merkuriestav av silver.
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
- 1 March 1946: Royal confirmation on
- 7 September 1979: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality’s arms description specifies a rising silver bridge with two arches and a caduceus above, all on a red field.
Background and the source’s interpretation
Bengtsfors Municipality says the arms were adopted in 1946. The municipality formed in 1971 retained the earlier arms, which were registered for it in 1987.
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
- Argent
- Gules
- bridge
- caduceus
- 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.
