Coat of arms of Boxholm
Boxholm’s quartered arms show a half-rampant red goat with blue armament on gold in quarters one and four, and a gold iron mark on red in quarters two and three.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Kvadrerad i guld och röd, i första och fjärde fältet en upprest uppstigande röd bock med blå beväring (allusion: Friherrliga ättens Stenbock vapen), i andra och tredje fältet ett järnmärke av guld.
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
- 3 October 1947: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Heraldica record divides the shield into four quarters. The first and fourth are gold, each with a half-rampant red goat with blue armament; the second and third are red, each with a gold iron mark.
Source: Heraldica record 2927
Background in the municipal sources
A Boxholm municipal document links the goat to the arms of the Stenbock family and the iron mark to local industry. The name Bocksholm was given in the late sixteenth century when Arvid Gustafsson Stenbock made Flemminge a manor. The document says the colours were not explained and offers the province’s colours only as a possibility.
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
- Or
- Gules
- Azure
- quarterly
- goatbuck
- iron symbol
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.
