Coat of arms of Grästorp
Grästorp’s arms have black and red fields and a gold stream or wavy-edged bar. The fields contain an oath-taking hand, a bow and an arrow, as well as a gold glove and crossed arrows.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Delad i svart och röd över delningslinjen belagd med en bjälkvis ställd ström av guld eller en genom vågskura bildad bjälke av guld, i första fältet en hand med till edgång uppsträckta fingrar av guld åtföljd till dexter av en båge av guld utan beväring och åtföljd till sinister av en pil av guld, i andra fältet en handske av guld till dexter uppslagen röd åtföljd till sinister av två korslagda pilar 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
- 6 February 1981: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Heraldica record gives two alternative wordings for the gold central figure: a stream arranged as a fess, or a bar formed by a wavy line. The first field contains a gold hand with fingers raised for an oath, accompanied by a gold bow and arrow. The second contains a gold glove with a red turned-back cuff and two crossed gold arrows. This reports the registry text; it is not an independently verified blazon.
Source: Heraldica record 3104
Background in local sources
Grästorp’s 2023 graphic profile treats the arms as part of the municipal logo and shows both horizontal and vertical logo arrangements. The guideline does not explain the motifs’ history or symbolism, so no such meanings are assigned here.
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
- per fess
- glove
- fess
- field
- Or
- Gules
- Sable
- hand in benediction
- bow
- arrow
- two
- stream
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.
