Coat of arms of Högsby
Högsby’s blue field contains a silver chief-like motif with three arches.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en ginstam av silver med tre valv.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. Its status as an official blazon has not been independently verified here. The municipal guideline quotes a version with different spelling, which is reported separately.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 24 November 1961: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
Motifs and wording of the description
The Heraldica record describes a silver ginstam motif with three arches on blue. Högsby Municipality’s graphic profile quotes an arms book that spells the corresponding word “gnistam”. The difference is left unresolved; this text does not assume that the spellings certainly refer to the same technical term.
Source: Heraldica record 2987·Högsby kommun: Grafisk profil (reviderad 2018)
The municipality’s account of the motif
Högsby Municipality says the arms were established in 1961 and that the motif comes from the Emån and Tingbron in the central locality. It also says the 2006 version aimed to return to the original colours and forms.
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
- Argent
- Azure
- chief
- 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.
