Coat of arms of Hallstahammar
Hallstahammar’s arms show a shield divided into silver and red: a black horizontal hammer in the silver field and three silver cogwheels, arranged two and one, in the red field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Delad i silver och röd, i första fältet en bjälkvis ställd svart hammare, i andra fältet tre kugghjul av silver 2 + 1.
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 November 1948: Royal confirmation on
- 28 February 1986: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality’s graphic guidelines say the hammer represents Hallsta copper hammer works and the cogwheels represent later industries in the area.
Background and the source’s interpretation
According to the guidelines, the former Office of the National Herald designed the arms. They were established for Hallstahammar market town in 1948 and registered for the municipality in 1986.
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
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- Sable
- cogwheel
- hammer
- three
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.
