Coat of arms of Kungälv
On silver, above a blue wavy base, a red crenellated gate tower with two arches, accompanied on the right by a red sword and on the left by a red lion rearing toward the tower.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en genom vågskura bildad blå stam, en krenelerad röd stadsport med två valv åtföljd till dexter av ett rött svärd och emot vilken stödjer sig ett upprest rött lejon till sinister.
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
- 14xx: Used as a seal as of
- 23 November 1951: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality’s graphic manual says its logo symbol is based on the old town arms, with roots reaching back to the Middle Ages. Its blazon describes a crenellated gate tower with two arches and places the red sword on the right and the red lion on the left, rearing toward the tower.
Source: Kungälvs kommun: Grafisk manual
Background and the source’s interpretation
This account follows the municipality’s own manual. It does not give a specific historical meaning for the gate, sword or lion, so no separate symbolic interpretation is added.
Source: Kungälvs kommun: Grafisk manual
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
- Azure
- lion
- base wavy
- city gate
- unpartitioned
- sword
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.
