Coat of arms of Karlstad
Karlstad’s arms place the blue, red-detailed right half of an eagle between two red towers on silver.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en dexter halvpart röd blå örn med beväring åtföljd av två röda torn.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. Its status as an official blazon has not been independently verified here. Karlstad’s archive catalogue lists material about the municipal arms, but the sources checked here do not explain the motifs.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1584: Used as a seal as of
- 20 May 1949: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
Motifs and registry wording
The Heraldica record describes the dexter half of an eagle, blue with red detailing, accompanied by two red towers on a silver field. The registry description is used here to identify motifs and colours; no symbolism is inferred from it.
Source: Heraldica record 3180
Use and limits of the sources
The Heraldica record lists seal use from 1584 and royal confirmation in 1949. Karlstad’s municipal archive catalogue lists papers about the municipal arms from 1956–1957. The municipal sources checked here did not provide a substantiated explanation for the eagle or towers.
Source: Karlstads kommunarkiv: Handlingar angående kommunvapen, 1956–1957
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
- tower
- eagle
- 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.
