Coat of arms of Köping
Köping’s arms show a blue Latin cross on a gold field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld ett korsat blått latinskt kors.
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
- (1349): Used as a seal as of
- 8 November 1940: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality describes the cross in the old seal as equal-armed and placed on a chequered ground; in the current arms it is a Latin cross. The letter K was removed.
Source: Köpings kommun: Kommunvapnet
Background and the source’s interpretation
Two municipal sources give different dates for the arms’ approval: the current arms page says 1947, while an older graphic manual says 1940. The arms page dates the oldest surviving seal impression to 1378. We leave the discrepancy unresolved.
Source: Köpings kommun: Kommunvapnet·Köpings kommun: Grafisk profil 2013
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
- Latin cross
- field
- Or
- Azure
- 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.
