Coat of arms of Lilla Edet
Lilla Edet’s municipal arms are based on the medieval arms of Lödöse and are linked to the history of Lödösehus.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en genom vågskura bildad stam av silver och uppstigande från denna en krenelerad svart stadsport med två torn med tak med liljeformade ändar.
Lilla Edet Municipality’s history page explains the arms’ origins and later revision but does not publish a full blazon. The Heraldica record’s description is separate registry material.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 30 June 1953: Royal confirmation on
- 21 June 1979: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The municipality’s account of the link to Lödösehus
Lilla Edet Municipality says the current arms refer to Lödösehus, the residence of the medieval Duke Erik Magnusson. The municipality’s history page does not provide a full verbal blazon of the charges.
Source: Lilla Edets kommun: Historia
From medieval arms to the current emblem
The municipality says the arms of Lödöse date back to the 13th century. In 1956, the Lödöse municipal council adopted them as its own arms with minor changes. After the 1971 municipal merger, the former Lödöse arms were retained. City heralds presented the current simplified and stylised version in 1976.
Source: Lilla Edets kommun: Historia
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
- Argent
- Sable
- base wavy
- city gate
- 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.
