Coat of arms of Gnesta
Gnesta’s arms show a gold birch on a green field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I grönt fält en björk 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
- 18 June 1992: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record specifies a gold birch on a green field. This reports the registry wording and does not establish every detail of a particular drawing.
Source: Heraldica record 2905
Background in local sources
Gnesta Municipality’s material describes the birch as a municipal symbol that may also be used on its own. It distinguishes that symbol from the heraldic arms, which are used on ceremonial occasions. The source does not explain the birch’s symbolism in the arms in further detail.
Source: Gnesta kommun: handlingar till kommunfullmäktige 11.2.2019 (grafisk profil)
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
- field
- Or
- Vert
- birch
- 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.
