Coat of arms of Gislaved
Gislaved’s arms show a gold topographical mark surrounded by a silver ring on red.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält ett topografiskt tecken av guld omgivet av en ring 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
- 27 March 1953: Royal confirmation on
- 2 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipality identifies the motif as an old map symbol for an inn or coaching stop. The mark appeared at Gislaved on maps from the seventeenth century onward.
Source: Gislaveds kommun: Kommunens historia och kommunvapen
Background in the municipal sources
According to the municipality, the inn stood by Nissastigen and the road between Gothenburg and Växjö. Gislaved market town adopted the map symbol as a shared emblem in 1953; the municipality also associates it with openness, hospitality and communication.
Source: Gislaveds kommun: Kommunens historia och kommunvapen
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
- map symbol
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Gules
- unpartitioned
- annulet
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.
