Coat of arms of Landskrona
Landskrona’s arms have four quarters: a gold crown, a lion with sword and palm branch, a ship and a cornucopia.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Kvadrerad i blå och silver, i första fältet en kungakrona av guld, i andra fältet ett rött lejon krönt av guld hållande i dexter hand ett rött svärd och hållande i sinister hand en grön palmkvist, i tredje fältet två röda kolonner mellan dem ett rött skepp seglande på en genom vågskura bildad blå stam belagd med två vågsträngar av silver, i fjärde fältet ett ymnighetshorn av guld.
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record is kept separate from the blazon in the city’s graphic manual. The available copy of the manual is hosted outside the city’s own website.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1663: In use as of
- 9 October 1953: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The four quarters
According to Landskrona’s graphic manual, the first quarter contains a gold crown. In the second, a red lion crowned in gold holds a sword and a green palm branch; the third shows a red ship between red pillars, and the fourth a gold cornucopia.
Source: Landskrona stad: Grafisk manual (kopia av kommunens manual)
The grant of 1663
The city’s graphic manual says the arms in their original form were granted by royal letter dated 5 June 1663. It states that the red backgrounds in two quarters were replaced with silver in 1929; a 1953 opinion from the State Heraldic Board led to the confirmation that remains in force.
Source: Landskrona stad: Grafisk manual (kopia av kommunens 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
- cornucopia
- column
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- palm branch
- Vert
- ship
- lion
- base wavy
- quarterly
- two
- royal crown
- barrulet wavy
- 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.
