Coat of arms of Luleå
Luleå’s arms show two crossed blue keys on silver.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver två blå nycklar korslagda med en störtad blå nyckel.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1621: Used as a seal as of
- 11 December 1942: Royal confirmation on
- 6 September 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal profile says the keys appeared on the 1621 founding charter seal and that the blazon was adopted for the town arms in 1942.
Source: Luleå kommun: Kommunikationspolicy och grafisk profil
Background in the municipal sources
Luleå connects the keys with Saint Peter, to whom Nederluleå Church is dedicated. After municipal mergers, the town arms also became the symbol of the larger municipality.
Source: Luleå kommun: Kommunikationspolicy och grafisk profil
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
- Argent
- Azure
- key
- two
- 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.
