Coat of arms of Kalix
Kalix’s arms show a gold chalice on a red field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält en kalk av guld.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. Its status as an official blazon has not been independently verified here. Kalix Municipality’s history page recounts a connection between the chalice and the spelling Calix.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 28 May 1937: Royal confirmation on
- 18 August 1989: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
Description of the arms
The Heraldica record describes a gold chalice on a red field. Kalix Municipality’s graphic profile confirms that the motif is a chalice and that it is used in the municipality’s visual identity.
Source: Heraldica record 3415·Kalix kommun: Grafisk profil och logotyp
The municipality’s account of the name
Kalix Municipality’s history page says that the Latin spelling Calix, used by learned writers, was associated with the Latin word for a chalice. The municipality gives this as the reason the chalice entered the arms; this is presented as the municipality’s account of the name.
Source: Kalix kommun: 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
- chalice
- field
- Or
- Gules
- 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.
