Coat of arms of Katrineholm
Katrineholm’s red arms show an inverted gold pall cross with a caduceus, a hammer and a rose.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält ett störtat gaffelkors av guld åtföljt till dexter av en merkuriestav av guld och åtföljd till sinister av en hammare av guld och varunder en ros av guld.
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
- 16 August 1918: Royal confirmation on
- 22 February 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality’s page gives the blazon and explains the motifs: the pall cross refers to the meeting of railway lines, the hammer to industry, the caduceus to trade and the rose to the garden city.
Background and the source’s interpretation
Katrineholm became a city in 1917 and its arms were established in 1918. The municipality says the city arms were also chosen for the new municipality in 1971; the mural crown was first removed and then restored in a modernised form in 1988.
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
- Gules
- rose
- caduceus
- hammer
- pall
- 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.
