Coat of arms of Degerfors
Degerfors’s arms place a silver iron mark and two cogwheels on a blue wavy band across a silver field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en genom vågskura bildad blå balk belagd med ett järnmärke av silver åtföljt av två kugghjul 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 the municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 17 December 1948: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The municipality’s graphic manual gives the blazon as a blue wavy band on silver, charged with an iron mark between two cogwheels, all silver.
Source: Heraldica record 3192
Background in the municipal sources
Degerfors’s graphic manual says the arms were approved in 1948 for the then market town and designed by the National Heraldic Office. It distinguishes the registered blazon from the logo’s white details: silver may be rendered as white in the artwork.
Source: Degerfors 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
- bend
- field
- Argent
- Azure
- cogwheel
- iron symbol
- two
- 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.
