Coat of arms of Essunga
Essunga’s arms show three silver ears of barley rising from a two-arched bridge in a blue field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält tre kornax av silver framväxande från en genomgående bro av silver med två valv uppstigande ur en genom vågskura bildad blå stam fyra gånger delad av silver.
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
- 28 April 2006: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record places a silver two-arched bridge in a wavy blue base and says three silver ears of barley rise from the bridge.
Source: Heraldica record 3105
Background in local sources
In 2005, Sveriges Radio reported a dispute over replacing Essunga’s older emblem with a registered heraldic coat of arms. The report documents that debate, not the origin of the current motifs; the municipality’s current press-material page separately points readers to its graphic profile and logos.
Source: Essunga kommun: Press- och informationsmaterial·Sveriges Radio P4 Skaraborg: Strid i Essunga om kommunens vapen (29.7.2005)
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
- Azure
- bridge
- ear of barley
- base wavy
- 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.
