Coat of arms of Laxå
Laxå’s arms show a silver saltire, with an iron mark above and a glove below, on a red field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält ett andreaskors av silver varöver ett järnmärke av silver och varunder en handske av silver.
The description of the arms’ layout follows the Swedish wording in the Heraldica record. No municipal explanation of the motifs’ origin or symbolism was found in the sources reviewed, so no such claims are made.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 2 March 1956: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The Heraldica record’s description
The Heraldica record describes a silver saltire on a red field, with a silver iron mark in the upper angle and a silver glove in the lower angle. This follows the record’s wording and is not an independently verified municipal blazon.
Source: Heraldica record 3190
What the sources establish
The registry description names the three motifs, but no municipal explanation for their selection was found in the sources reviewed. No historical or symbolic meaning is therefore assigned here to the iron mark or the glove.
Source: Heraldica record 3190
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
- glove
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- iron symbol
- saltire
- 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.
