Coat of arms of Gävle
Gävle’s arms show three gold anchors around a wavy silver bar on a blue field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en genom vågskura bildad bjälke av silver åtföljd av tre ankare av guld 2 + 1.
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
- 25 April 1941: Royal confirmation on
- 3 May 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
Gävle Municipality’s design manual gives the arms’ description as a wavy silver bar across a blue shield, with two gold anchors above it and one below.
Source: Gävle kommun: designmanual
Background in local sources
According to Gävle’s design manual, the description of the arms was presented in 1941, while the crown above the shield was added later. The municipality’s logo, adopted in 2001, combines the arms with the words “Gävle kommun”; the manual treats this as a logo design.
Source: Gävle kommun: designmanual
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
- fess
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Azure
- anchor
- 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.
