Coat of arms of Lerum
Lerum’s arms combine three oak leaves and a black ox head in red and gold fields.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld ett svart tjuransikte med röd tunga och däröver en röd ginstam belagd med tre eklöv av guld.
The Swedish wording in the Heraldica record is registry information. The description and interpretation below follow Lerum Municipality’s published account of its arms.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 8 October 1982: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The municipality’s description of the arms
Lerum Municipality describes a red upper field containing three gilded oak leaves. The lower, gold field bears a black ox head. The municipality says the ox head is a heraldic abbreviation of the ox in the 1563 seal of Wättle Hundred.
The meaning of the leaves and ox head
The municipality links the three oak leaves to Lerum, Stora Lundby and Skallsjö, the municipalities that make up present-day Greater Lerum. Oak was also one of the area’s common tree species. According to the municipality, both the leaves and the ox head represent strength and endurance. Sven Engwall created the artistic design, and the arms were registered in 1982.
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
- Or
- Gules
- Sable
- oak leaf
- bull's head caboshed
- chief
- 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.
