Coat of arms of Klippan
Klippan’s arms show a silver torrent dividing a blue upper field from a black lower field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Styckad i blå och svart över delningslinjen belagd med en genom vågskura bildad av ovantill bildad av skura kil upp mot dexter av silver.
The automatically assembled description in the Heraldica record is unusually garbled. The wording below follows the blazon published by Klippan Municipality.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 24 November 1961: Royal confirmation on
- 22 February 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The municipality’s blazon
Klippan Municipality describes a silver torrent formed as a ray from the heraldic right side of the shield. Its upper edge is wavy and its lower edge straight, separating the blue upper field from the black lower field.
The background to the name and arms
According to the municipality’s history page, Klippan took its name from a mill by the paper mill. The mill stood beside a waterfall and large rock outcrops, and the municipality says this landscape inspired the arms.
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
- per bend
- field
- Argent
- Azure
- Sable
- pile issuing from sinister base
- on upper edge
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.
