Coat of arms of Mellerud
Mellerud’s silver field has a blue pale bearing a silver lily-of-the-valley stem, flanked by two outward-facing blue battle-axes.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en blå stolpe belagd med en liljekonvalj av silver (allusion: Adliga ättens Stake vapen) och åtföljd av två frånvända blå stridsyxor.
Mellerud Municipality’s history page publishes the blazon and explains the connections it assigns to the charges. The automatically assembled Heraldica description is separate registry information.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 17 May 1963: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The municipality’s published blazon
Mellerud Municipality gives the blazon as a silver field with a blue pale bearing a silver lily-of-the-valley stem and accompanied by two outward-facing blue battle-axes. This is the municipality’s published wording.
The charges and the arms’ adoption
The arms were approved for Mellerud market town on 17 May 1963 and were taken over by the municipality when it was formed on 1 January 1969. The municipality links the battle-axes to Saint Olaf, to whom the medieval church of Holm was dedicated. The lily-of-the-valley comes from the arms of the Stake noble family, which owned large estates in Holm parish and is also listed among the church’s donors.
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
- lily of the valley
- pale
- field
- Argent
- Azure
- battle axe
- 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.
