Coat of arms of Ljungby
Ljungby’s arms show a gold wavy fess, three hammers and a caduceus on a green field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I grönt fält en genom vågskura bildad bjälke av guld varöver tre bjälkvis ordnade hammare av guld och varunder en merkuriestav av guld.
The Swedish wording in the Heraldica record is registry information. Ljungby Municipality publishes the meanings assigned to the charges and the dates of approval and registration.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 10 December 1937: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The charges and their stated meanings
Ljungby Municipality describes a green field, a gold wavy fess, three hammers and a caduceus. The municipality links the green to nature and the green landscape; the gold fess represents the River Lagan, which flows through the municipality.
Source: Ljungby kommun: Ljungby stad fyller 90 år – vi firar tillsammans
Craft, trade and the history of the arms
According to the municipality, the three hammers represent crafts and industry. The caduceus stands for trade and communications and recalls Ljungby’s role as a marketplace and road junction. The arms were created when Ljungby became a city in 1936, approved in 1937 and registered for the municipality in 1974.
Source: Ljungby kommun: Ljungby stad fyller 90 år – vi firar tillsammans
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
- fess
- field
- Or
- Vert
- caduceus
- hammer
- 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.
