Coat of arms of Motala Municipality
Swedish blazon
I fält av silver en blå balk varöver svarta örnvingar försedda med två motvända svarta apor huvuden (allusion: Grevliga ättens von Platen vapen) och varunder en röd propeller i sköldfoten.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 20 May 1949: Royal confirmation on
- 27 July 1984: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
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
- eagle's wings
- bend
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- ape
- Sable
- propeller
- two
- unpartitioned
Sources and image use
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.
