Coat of arms of Filipstad
Filipstad’s arms show a rider in blue armour on a walking red horse, on a silver field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en naturfärgad riddare harneskklädd blå ridande på en gående röd häst med beväring av guld med mundering 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 municipal or local interpretations.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- (1634): Used as a seal as of
- 9 March 1945: Royal confirmation on
- 4 April 1975: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish text in the Heraldica record describes a natural-coloured knight in blue armour on a walking red horse with gold trappings, on a silver field. This reports the registry wording and does not verify individual details of the artwork.
Source: Heraldica record 3182
Background in local sources
Filipstad Municipality’s 2023 notice about its graphic profile says the refreshed logo still shows the mounted knight and that the municipal arms remain. The mineral-inspired colours mentioned in the notice belong to the new graphic profile, not to the arms’ heraldic colour description.
Source: Filipstads kommun: Nu lanseras Filipstads kommuns nya grafiska profil (2023)
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
- knight
- horse
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- Proper
- 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.
