Coat of arms of Forshaga
Forshaga’s wavy-divided arms combine green and gold with a gold house mark and a green laurel branch.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Sköld genom en vågskura styckad i grön och guld, i första fältet ett bomärke av guld, i andra fältet en grön lagerkvist med utväxande tre gröna lagerblad (allusion: Adliga ättens von Lagerlöf vapen).
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
- 30 December 1954: Royal confirmation on
- 30 March 1979: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Heraldica record describes a shield divided by a wavy line into green and gold. The first field contains a gold house mark; the second contains a laurel branch with three leaves.
Source: Heraldica record 3175
Background in the municipal sources
Forshaga Municipality says the wavy line in the shield symbolises the River Klarälven. The Heraldica record also notes an allusion between the laurel branch and the arms of the von Lagerlöf noble family; this is not presented as a municipal interpretation.
Source: Forshaga kommun: Lokalhistoria·Heraldica record 3175
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
- Or
- laurel branch
- Vert
- bay leaf
- house mark
- three
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.
