Coat of arms of Mönsterås
Mönsterås’s graphic profile distinguishes three parts of the municipal logo: the brig Maria, the municipal arms and a name banner. It dates the arms’ establishment to 1955.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Sköld genom en fjällskura genom sparrsnitt delad sänkt i röd och silver, i första fältet ett Malteserkors av silver.
The graphic profile describes the arms’ place in the logo and their history, but does not provide a complete verbal blazon. The automatically assembled Heraldica wording is separate registry information and is not presented here as the municipality’s official blazon.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 3 June 1955: Royal confirmation on
- 1 December 1978: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and the other parts of the logo
Mönsterås Municipality’s graphic profile says its logo has three separate parts: the brig Maria, the municipal arms and a banner bearing the municipality’s name. The brig is therefore a distinct logo image, not a charge in the arms. The manual does not describe the arms’ field or charges in words.
Source: Mönsterås kommun: Grafisk profil
The arms’ establishment and the brig Maria
The arms were established for Mönsterås market town on 3 June 1955. When the municipalities of Fliseryd, Mönsterås and Ålem merged on 1 January 1974, they became the new municipality’s arms. Separately, the manual says the brig Maria had Mönsterås as its home port from 1898 to 1908 and was then the locality’s largest vessel; those details concern the ship in the logo, not the history of the arms.
Source: Mönsterås kommun: Grafisk profil
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
- Maltese cross
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- per chevron
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.
