Coat of arms of Götene
Götene’s arms show a fountain of silver and blue on a red field, with a silver Latin cross above it and two upright silver swords beside it.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält en källa varöver ett latinskt kors av silver och åtföljd av två stolpvis ställda svärd 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 distinguishes registry information from municipal or local interpretations.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 5 June 1953: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record places a fountain in a red field, a silver Latin cross above it and two upright silver swords, one on either side. This reports the registry wording.
Source: Heraldica record 3117
Background in local sources
Götene Municipality’s history page describes a holy spring east of Husaby Church and a tradition that Olof Skötkonung was baptised there. The municipal source does not connect that site to the heraldic fountain in the arms, so no such link is presented as established.
Source: Götene kommun: Om kommunen
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
- Latin cross
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- indeterminable tincture
- fountain
- two
- unpartitioned
- sword
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.
