Coat of arms of Hällefors
Hällefors’s arms show a blue, burning triple mount with a red flame on silver. The mount bears a silver wavy pale and is flanked on the right by a rising moon and on the left by an iron mark, both blue.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver ett brinnande blått treberg med röd flamma belagt med en genom vågskura bildad stolpe av silver och åtföljd till dexter av en blå måne i sköldhuvudet och åtföljt till sinister av ett blått järnmärke i sköldhuvudet.
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
- 5 September 1942: Royal confirmation on
The arms and their blazon
The municipal graphic profile says the arms were established in 1942 and describes their colours and motifs.
Source: Hällefors kommun: Grafisk profil
Background in the municipal sources
The profile presents a connection with local silver works as probable rather than certain, so the historical interpretation is qualified.
Source: Hällefors kommun: Grafisk profil
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
- crescent
- pale
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- trimount
- iron symbol
- 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.
