Coat of arms of Kinda
Kinda’s arms have a silver border around a red field bearing a silver cross.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält en bård av silver, ett ankar- korsat kors av silver.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. Its more specific wording about the cross is unclear, so the motif is described simply as a cross. Kinda Municipality’s source confirms the cross’s connection to the district seal.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 29 August 1975: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
Motifs and description
The Heraldica record describes a red field with a silver border and a silver cross. Its more detailed wording about the cross’s form is broken and unclear, so it is not completed by guesswork.
Source: Heraldica record 2923
The municipality’s historical account
Kinda Municipality says the arms derive from those of Kinda Hundred and were established in 1950. The municipality traces the cross to the district seal, known from 1568. A silver border was added to distinguish the municipal arms from the district arms because their territories did not have the same boundaries.
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
- bordure
- cross crosslet
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- 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.
