Coat of arms of Lysekil
Lysekil’s arms show two blue fish back to back and three six-pointed stars in silver and blue.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver två frånvända blå fiskar och däröver en blå ginstam belagd med tre sexuddiga stjärnor av silver (allusion: Adliga ättens Strömstierna vapen).
The automatically assembled Heraldica wording is registry information. Lysekil Municipality’s 2025 graphic manual publishes the registered description and presents an interpretation of the stars as a possible explanation.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 25 May 1905: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The municipality’s published blazon
Lysekil Municipality’s manual blazons the arms as two blue fish placed vertically with their backs toward each other on a silver field, beneath a blue chief charged with three six-pointed silver stars.
The explanation of the stars and approval of the arms
The manual reports an interpretation in which two stars recall Gyllenstierna and Strömstierna in Lysekil’s history, while the third is the new city’s own star. This is an explanation reported in the manual, not a verified account of the stars’ origin. The city council first adopted an earlier proposal, which was not approved by the National Herald; the mayor’s proposal was then established as the city arms. The present municipality registered the arms in the early 1970s.
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
- mullet of six points
- chief
- two
- three
- fish
- 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.
