Coat of arms of Dorotea
Dorotea’s arms show a red bear with a blue tongue and claws on gold, beneath a red chief bearing a gold crown.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en röd björn med blå tunga med blå naglar och däröver en röd ginstam belagd med en krona 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
- 23 November 1945: Royal confirmation on
- 7 April 1989: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
Dorotea Municipality’s blazon specifies a red bear with blue tongue and claws on a gold field, with a red chief and gold crown above.
Source: Heraldica record 3397
Background in the municipal sources
Dorotea Municipality says the arms first belonged to the former rural municipality and were taken over by the current municipality. It connects the bear with local fauna and the crown with Queen Fredrika Dorothea Wilhelmina, after whom Dorotea was named.
Source: Dorotea kommun: Kommunvapnet
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
- chief
- bear
- unpartitioned
- coronet
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.
