Coat of arms of Berg Municipality (Sweden)
Berg’s arms show a silver triple mount and a gold flame on blue, flanked by a silver axe and musket.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält ett treberg av silver och uppstigande från detta en flamma av guld åtföljd till dexter av en sinistervänd yxa av silver och åtföljd till sinister av en musköt 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 distinguishes registry information from municipal or local interpretations.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 19 October 1957: Unofficially in use as of
- 22 July 1988: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Heraldica record lists a silver triple mount on a blue field, a rising gold flame, and a silver axe and musket. The description does not assign symbolic meanings to these objects.
Source: Heraldica record 3369
Background in local sources
Berg Municipality’s 2022 brand policy says its logo combines the municipal arms with the organisation’s name in Swedish and South Sámi. The policy covers the logo’s languages and use variants, not the history of the arms’ motifs.
Source: Bergs kommun: Varumärkespolicy med bildmanér och grafisk profil (2022)
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
- musket
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Azure
- axe
- trimount
- flame
- 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.
