Coat of arms of Markaryd
Markaryd’s arms show gold post horns in a blue upper field and a dancing crane with a red crest in the gold lower part.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en blå trana med röd man peleando @es (fi) och däröver en blå ginstam belagd med två posthorn av guld.
Markaryd Municipality describes the arms and the background to their charges on its municipal facts page. The automatically assembled Heraldica wording is separate registry information.
Designers
- Riksarkivets heraldiska sektion
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 26 April 1972: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The municipality’s description of the arms
Markaryd Municipality describes the arms in two parts: gold post horns in the blue upper field and a dancing crane with a red crest in the gold lower part. The municipal page does not provide a separate technical blazon.
The crane and post horns in the municipality’s history
Markaryd Municipality was formed in 1971 when the market towns of Traryd and Markaryd joined. The municipality says the new arms drew on both places’ arms: the crane comes from Traryd’s canting arms, while the post horns refer to Markaryd’s early post station. This is the municipality’s own explanation of the charges.
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
- crane
- Gules
- Azure
- post horn
- chief
- 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.
