Coat of arms of Kumla
Kumla’s arms show two crossed silver shoemaker’s hammers above a silver three-mount on red.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält två korslagda hammare av silver varunder ett treberg av silver.
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record is kept separate from the historical explanation published by the municipality.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 14 December 1945: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The motifs in the arms
The Heraldica record describes two crossed silver hammers above a silver three-mount on a red field. The municipality’s own account identifies them as shoemaker’s hammers.
Source: Heraldica record 3198
Shoemaking and the burial ground
Kumla Municipality’s magazine says the arms were confirmed in 1945. The crossed shoemaker’s hammers symbolize the shoe industry, while the three-mount represents the burial ground; a three-mount is a heraldic way of depicting a burial mound.
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
- trimount
- hammer
- 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.
