Coat of arms of Hammarö
Hammarö’s arms show a blue engrailed fess charged with a gold log on a silver field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en genom karvskura bildad blå bjälke belagd med en svävande sträng bjälkvis 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
- 19 December 1952: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record specifies a blue engrailed fess on a silver field, charged with a gold log. This restates the registry description; the municipality’s graphic manual does not confirm the coat-of-arms blazon.
Source: Heraldica record 3173
Background in local sources
Hammarö’s graphic manual concerns the municipality’s current logo and colour palette. It says the main colour was inspired by Lake Vänern and other colours by features such as reeds, lupins and cliffs. The manual describes brand colours and the logo symbol, so these should not be treated as a historical interpretation of the arms.
Source: Hammarö kommun: grafisk manual
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
- Azure
- barrulet
- 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.
