Coat of arms of Hofors
Hofors’s gold shield bears a black flower formed from eight black roundels in a ring.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en svart blomma försedd med åtta svarta rundlar ringformigt.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. Its status as an official blazon has not been independently verified here. The editorial text distinguishes the registry wording from the municipality’s interpretation.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 28 June 1968: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
Motifs and registry wording
The Heraldica record describes a black flower on a gold field, formed by eight black roundels arranged in a ring. Hofors Municipality’s graphic manual calls the motif an octofoil, or eight-petalled flower.
Source: Heraldica record 3272·Hofors kommun: Grafisk manual, november 2024
The municipality’s historical explanation
According to Hofors Municipality’s 2024 graphic manual, the sixteenth-century cartographer Olaus Magnus used an eight-petalled flower to mark iron-ore deposits. Architect Hans Schlyter introduced the motif into Hofors’s arms. The municipal council adopted the arms in June 1966, and they were officially established on 28 June 1968.
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
- field
- Or
- Sable
- indeterminable tincture
- pellet
- flower
- eight
- 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.
