Coat of arms of Jönköping
Jönköping’s arms show a crenellated silver castle with three crenellated towers, the middle one highest, rising from a blue wavy base on red.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält en genom vågskura bildad blå stam och uppstigande från denna en krenelerad borg med tre torn av silver med svart dörr med svart fällgaller.
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 below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1400-luvulta: Used as a seal as of
- 22 November 1935: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The city’s blazon specifies a crenellated silver castle with three crenellated towers, the middle one highest, rising from a blue wavy base on a red field. It also names black windows, doors and gate, as well as a raised silver portcullis.
Source: Jönköpings kommun: Historien bakom Jönköpings stadsvapen
Background and the source’s interpretation
Jönköping Municipality says the city arms derive from a seal known from the early fifteenth century. The oldest fragmentary document bearing an arms motif is dated 1370. In 1971 the new municipality decided to use the same arms that had been established for the city in 1935.
Source: Jönköpings kommun: Historien bakom Jönköpings stadsvapen
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
- Gules
- Azure
- Sable
- castle triple towered
- base wavy
- 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.
