Coat of arms of Karlskoga
Karlskoga’s arms show two crossed gold cannon barrels and four gold iron marks on a blue field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält två korslagda kanonrör av guld i korsvinklarna åtföljda av fyra järnmärken 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 connects the cannons with ironworks but does not explain the four iron marks.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 5 April 1940: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
Motifs and description
The Heraldica record describes two crossed gold cannon barrels on a blue field, accompanied by four gold iron marks between them. The registry wording describes their placement, not any possible historical meaning of the marks.
Source: Heraldica record 3200
The municipality’s explanation of the cannons
Karlskoga Municipality’s graphic profile says the two cannons are a typical product of the ironworks industry and reflect the town’s origins. The profile gives no separate explanation for the four iron marks, so no meaning is inferred for them here.
Source: Karlskoga kommun: 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
- Azure
- cannon dismounted
- iron symbol
- two
- four
- 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.
