Coat of arms of Kalmar
Kalmar’s arms show a crenellated red tower with a gold door and windows rising from a blue wavy base, with a red six-pointed star on each side.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver ett krenelerat uppstigande rött torn med dörr av guld med fönster av guld åtföljt av två röda sexuddiga stjärnor och därunder en genom vågskura bildad blå stam.
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
- 1200-luvulta: Used as a seal as of
- 3 October 1947: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The 2017 municipal council minutes reproduce the verbal description of the arms and distinguish the historic town arms from the work on the graphic profile.
Source: Kalmar kommunfullmäktige: protokoll 27 februari 2017
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality says the castle and surrounding water are the main elements of the design, with relevant motifs traceable to the town’s earliest seal. The arms were kept separate from the new logo.
Source: Kalmar kommunfullmäktige: protokoll 27 februari 2017·Kalmar kommun: Uppdrag om grafisk profil
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
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- tower
- mullet of six points
- base wavy
- two
- 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.
