Coat of arms of Lund Municipality (Sweden)
Lund’s arms show a red gate wall on green ground within a silver shield; a seal impression is known from 1354.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en grön mark eller en grön stam och uppstigande från denna en krenelerad röd mur med porttorn med två torn.
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. The editorial text below is based on the linked source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1300-luvulta: Used as a seal as of
- 17 October 1913: Royal confirmation on
- 29 August 1975: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The gate wall as a city emblem
A red crenellated wall with a gate tower rises from green ground in a silver shield. Two smaller towers flank the gate tower. Lund Municipality describes the arms as a symbol of the city, distinct from the municipal organisation’s logo.
Source: Heraldica record 3062·Lunds kommun: Kommunikationsplattform för Lunds kommun
A medieval seal image and the city arms
An impression of the arms is known from a parchment document dated 1354 and held in Lübeck. The municipality explains that the building is a symbolic image of civic dignity, not an exact depiction of a particular historic city gate. The arms were confirmed in 1913 and adopted for the newly formed municipality in 1974.
Source: Heraldica record 3062·Lunds kommun: Kommunikationsplattform för Lunds kommun
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
- Gules
- Vert
- terrace
- base
- wall
- 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.
