Coat of arms of Emmaboda
Emmaboda’s arms show a blue forked cross and three unstrung blue crossbows on a gold field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld ett blått smalt gaffelkors åtföljt av tre ospända blå armborst.
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 below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 6 November 1952: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
In the municipality’s 1952 account, the forked cross represents the railway junction between Växjö, Kalmar and Karlskrona; the crossbow motif comes from Södra Möre.
Source: Emmaboda kommun: Grafisk profil
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality explains the forked cross as an important railway junction. The crossbow refers to Södra Möre hundred, which included Vissefjärda until 1889. The arms were completed on 6 November 1952 and became the arms of the present municipality in the 1972 reorganisation.
Source: Emmaboda 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
- Or
- Azure
- pall narrowed
- crossbow
- three
- 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.
