Coat of arms of Habo
Habo’s arms divide the shield into silver and green, crossed by a fence in the opposite colours.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Kluven i silver och grön, en genomgående gärdesgård av motsatta tinkturer.
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
- 28 November 1986: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipality links the fence with the enclosure-related meaning of the name Habo and the municipality’s position on the boundary between Västergötland and Småland. The arms were adopted on 24 April 1986 and registered on 28 November 1986.
Source: Habo kommun: Historia
Background in the municipal sources
The fence is described as a heraldic element and as the municipality’s interpretation of the place name. The blazon does not date or prescribe a particular drawing.
Source: Habo kommun: Historia
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 pale
- roundpole fence
- field
- Argent
- Vert
- counterchanged
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.
