Coat of arms of Eslöv
Eslöv’s blue arms show a gold winged wheel with a gold clover leaf above it.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält ett bevingat hjul av guld varöver ett klöverblad 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
- 22 December 1911: Royal confirmation on
- 12 December 1975: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record specifies a gold winged wheel and a gold clover leaf above it on a blue field.
Source: Heraldica record 3067
Background in the municipal sources
Eslöv Municipality’s historical report says the town arms contain a symbol for the railway and trade. It links this to the town’s rapid development after the railway arrived in the nineteenth century, but does not identify each of the two charges separately.
Source: Eslövs kommun: Historik i antikvarisk förundersökning (PDF)·Heraldica record 3067
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
- wheel winged
- unpartitioned
- cloverleaf
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.
