Coat of arms of Gnosjö
Gnosjö’s arms show five silver waterwheels between two silver bars on a green field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I grönt fält en dubbelsträng bjälkvis av silver åtföljd av fem vattenhjul av silver 2 + 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
- 8 May 1954: Unofficially in use as of
- 16 July 1976: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record places five waterwheels in the arrangement 2 + 2 + 1 between two horizontal silver bars on green. This restates the registry wording; it is not an independent verification of an official blazon.
Source: Heraldica record 2940
Background in local sources
Gnosjö Municipality’s 2024 council minutes say the registered description of the arms will be retained while the municipality reviews its graphic profile. The minutes treat the wording as a registered blazon but do not assign a separate symbolic meaning to the waterwheels.
Source: Gnosjö kommun: Kommunfullmäktiges protokoll 2024-11-28
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
- Argent
- Vert
- waterwheel
- five
- bar gemel
- 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.
