Coat of arms of Karlsborg
Karlsborg’s arms show a silver gate structure above a blue wavy band.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en genom vågskura bildad stam av silver, en genomgående mur av silver med blå fönster med porttorn.
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
- 21 November 1980: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal graphic profile distinguishes the arms from the municipality’s current graphic identity and shows the gate tower above the wave.
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality describes the gate motif as Götiska Valvet seen from the front and the wave below as the waters of Lake Vättern. This is an interpretation of the motifs, not the blazon.
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
- base wavy
- wall
- 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.
