Coat of arms of Borgholm
Borgholm’s arms show a silver castle with blue door and windows above a wavy silver bar on a blue field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en genom vågskura bildad stam av silver, en borg av silver med blå fönster med blå dörr.
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
- 3 October 1947: Royal confirmation on
- 8 October 1982: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Heraldica record describes a blue field with a wavy silver bar and a castle above it, whose door and windows are blue.
Source: Heraldica record 3001
Background in local sources
Borgholm Municipality’s graphic profile describes the castle as an important symbol of the town for several centuries and shows the depiction of the arms used in 2015. The profile also includes a visual timeline of older arms and logo versions. Those artistic variants should not be confused with the verbal description of the arms.
Source: Borgholms kommun: Grafisk profil
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
- Azure
- castle
- base wavy
- 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.
