Coat of arms of Hagfors
Hagfors’s arms show a red wall and a red blast furnace rising above it on a gold field, with a blue flame rising from the furnace.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en uppstigande genomgående röd mur och uppstigande från denna en röd masugn och uppstigande från denna en blå flamma.
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
- 2 February 1951: Royal confirmation on
- 1 November 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record specifies a red wall extending across the field and rising from its base, a red blast furnace above it and a blue flame above the furnace. The registry wording does not identify a particular building in the image.
Source: Heraldica record 3183
Background in local sources
Hagfors Municipality’s graphic profile treats the arms as the municipality’s official logo. The town’s detailed comprehensive plan also documents the area’s ironworking and blast-furnace history, including the Gammelhyttan ironworks. The source does not say that the furnace in the arms depicts that specific building.
Source: Hagfors kommun: Grafisk profil·Hagfors kommun: Fördjupad översiktsplan för Hagfors stad
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
- Gules
- Azure
- blast furnace
- flame
- wall
- 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.
