Coat of arms of Eksjö
Eksjö’s arms show a green oak on a silver field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en grön ek.
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
- 25 February 1949: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record specifies a green oak on a silver field.
Source: Heraldica record 2957
Background in local sources
The local publication Eksjö & co reports that the old oak at the I12 site is also called “Eksjö arms” and later served as a model for the town arms; the tree’s exact age is unknown. Eksjö Municipality says its current municipal mark combines the heraldic arms with the words “Eksjö kommun”.
Source: Eksjö kommun: Presskontakt och pressbilder·Eksjö & co: Området som bytte uniform
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
- oak
- Vert
- 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.
