Coat of arms of Halmstad
Halmstad’s arms show three red hearts crowned with gold on a silver bar across a blue field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en bjälke av silver belagd med tre röda hjärtan krönta 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
- (1603): Used as a seal as of
- 8 May 1936: Royal confirmation on
- 23 August 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record places a silver bar on a blue field, bearing three red hearts with gold crowns. The registry wording is kept separate from the arms’ current graphic depiction.
Source: Heraldica record 3080
Background in local sources
Halmstad Municipality also uses the three hearts in its current vision: they represent the home town, the city of knowledge and the city of experiences. This is the municipality’s present-day interpretation and messaging, not an explanation of the arms’ historical origin.
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
- fess
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- heart
- three
- 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.
