Coat of arms of Eskilstuna
Eskilstuna’s arms show a black anvil with red fittings above a blue wavy base on silver; a red arm emerges from a blue cloud holding a black sledgehammer.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en genom vågskura bildad blå stam och uppstigande från denna ett svart städ med röda utrustningar varöver en blå sky i övre sinister hörn från vilken framkommer en röd arm hållande en svart slägga.
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
- (1665): Used as a seal as of
- 3 December 1937: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The registered blazon describes a silver field with a blue wavy base, a black anvil with red fittings and a red arm emerging from a blue cloud in the upper sinister corner and holding a black sledgehammer. The municipal identity guide shows the shield with a mural crown and distinguishes the arms from the current logo.
Source: Riksarkivet: Europeana Heraldica, Eskilstuna kommunvapen (registrerad blasonering)
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality connects the anvil and water with the locality. That local interpretation does not replace the registered blazon. The arms and the municipality’s current graphic logo are separate marks used in different contexts.
Source: Riksarkivet: Europeana Heraldica, Eskilstuna kommunvapen (registrerad blasonering)
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
- Gules
- Azure
- Sable
- anvil
- cloud
- base wavy
- arm
- sledgehammer
- 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.
