Coat of arms of Haninge
Haninge’s arms are divided into gold and blue: a red capercaillie appears in the upper field and a gold anchor in the lower field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Delad i guld och blå, i första fältet en röd tjäder, i andra fältet ett ankare 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
- 6 September 1985: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record divides the shield into gold and blue, placing a red capercaillie in the first field and a gold anchor in the second. This reports the registry wording without assigning an unsupported meaning to the anchor.
Source: Heraldica record 2846
Background in local sources
Haninge Municipality’s nature guide says the name Haninge is thought to have arisen in the Viking Age from Hanveden; its explanation associates Hanveden with male capercaillie and black grouse. The guide does not say that this explains the capercaillie in the arms, and it gives no origin for the anchor.
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
- Or
- Gules
- Azure
- anchor
- capercaillie
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.
