Coat of arms of Enköping
Enköping’s arms show four gold lilies arranged in a cross on a blue field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält fyra liljor av guld korsvis ställda.
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
- (1327): Used as a seal as of
- 11 May 1928: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Heraldica record describes four gold lilies set crosswise on blue. The image is simple, but the lily motif has a long history in the town seal.
Source: Heraldica record 2886
Background in local sources
A local area analysis by Enköping Centrum says the lilies appear in the oldest known seal, from the fourteenth century. It connects them with the Virgin Mary and the town’s Vårfrukyrka. The same source says the arms were confirmed in 1928 and registered for the new municipality in 1974; these were separate events.
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
- fleur-de-lys
- four
- 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.
