Coat of arms of Hylte
Hylte’s shield is divided by a wavy line into gold and blue, with a red waterwheel and two gold bars.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Sköld genom en vågskura delad i guld och blå, i första fältet ett uppstigande rött vattenhjul, i andra fältet två bjälkar av guld.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. Its status as an official blazon has not been independently verified here. The municipality also gives an approval date and names Per Andersson as designer.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 26 June 1987: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
Motifs and registry wording
According to the Heraldica record, a wavy line divides the shield into gold and blue fields. The first contains a rising red waterwheel; the second contains two gold bars.
Source: Heraldica record 3078
The municipality’s explanation of the motifs
Hylte Municipality says Per Andersson designed the arms, which were registered on 26 June 1987. The waterwheel stands for industry and the gold field for agriculture. The bars represent logs, forestry and the timber industry; their parallel arrangement also refers to the railway. The municipality connects the wavy line with the Nissan and the three former municipalities. It presents the historical associations of the colours as possible interpretations rather than a definitive explanation.
Source: Hylte kommun: Press- och informationsmaterial och kommunvapnets historia
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
- two bars
- field
- Or
- Gules
- Azure
- waterwheel
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.
