Coat of arms of Fagersta
Fagersta’s arms divide silver and blue with a winged wheel; the shield also bears an iron mark and a lily.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Styckad i silver och blå, en genom vågskura bildad blå ginstam belagd med ett bevingat hjul av silver, i första fältet ett blått järnmärke, i andra fältet en lilja 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 below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 5 December 1947: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal manual says the arms were designed in 1944. The winged wheel symbolises the railway, the wavy division the Strömsholm Canal, and the iron mark the local iron industry; the lily is a reworking of herb Paris.
Source: Fagersta kommun: Grafisk manual
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality explains that the railway and canal were important transport systems for Fagersta’s iron production. It connects the lily with herb Paris, said to have inspired the mark used to stamp iron in the seventeenth century.
Source: Fagersta kommun: Grafisk manual
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
- per bend
- field
- Argent
- Azure
- wheel winged
- fleur-de-lys
- iron symbol
- chief
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.
