Coat of arms of Laholm
Laholm’s arms show three silver salmon with red heraldic detailing on a blue field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält tre bjälkvis ställda stolpvis ordnade laxar av silver med röda beväringar.
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record is registry information. Laholm’s official visitor site links the three salmon in the arms with salmon fishing in the River Lagan.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1300-luvulta: Used as a seal as of
- 2 July 1940: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
Three salmon
The Heraldica record describes three silver salmon with red heraldic detailing on a blue field. The source does not specify here how those details appear in the particular drawing.
Source: Heraldica record 3081
The River Lagan and salmon fishing
Laholm’s official visitor site says it is no coincidence that the municipal arms show three salmon and that the River Lagan is an important salmon fishery. This reports the municipality’s own connection; it does not by itself establish when the motif originated.
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
- salmon
- Azure
- three
- 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.
