Coat of arms of Mjölby
Mjölby Municipality’s local history places the municipal arms and several predecessor arms in the context of the 1971 consolidation under the heading “Five became one”. The page names the administrative units that merged.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält en balkvis ställd ström av guld eller en genom vågskura bildad balk av guld åtföljd av två vattenhjul av guld.
Mjölby’s source shows the arms in a local-history context but does not say that the current arms were assembled from the predecessor municipalities’ emblems. The automatically assembled Heraldica description is therefore not used to support that interpretation.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 24 April 1923: Royal confirmation on
- 1 December 1978: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms in local history
The municipal history presents Mjölby’s arms alongside the historic arms of Skänninge, Boberg, Vifolka and Folkunga in a section titled “Five became one”. It does not establish a heraldic relationship between the arms or give a separate blazon here.
The 1971 municipal consolidation
The municipality says Mjölby town, Skänninge town, Vifolka rural municipality, most of Folkunga and part of Boberg rural municipality merged to form Mjölby Municipality in 1971. This context explains why the page groups the historic arms together, but does not by itself show that their motifs were transferred to the current arms.
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
- bend
- field
- Or
- Gules
- waterwheel
- two
- stream
- 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.
