Coat of arms of Ockelbo
Ockelbo’s arms divide a shield with a spruce-branch line, three green rings and a silver hammer.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Sköld genom en grankvistskura kluven i silver och grön, i första fältet tre stolpvis ordnade gröna ringar, i andra fältet en stolpvis ställd hammare av silver.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified. The editorial text below is based on the linked source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 15 March 1985: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
A spruce branch divides the shield
A line shaped like a spruce branch divides the shield: three green rings appear in the silver field and an upright silver hammer in the green field. The archive record’s computer-generated heraldic description lists these features but assigns no separate symbolic meaning to the rings or hammer.
Source: Heraldica record 3269
Colours, forest and steel
The arms were registered in 1985. Ockelbo Municipality’s graphic profile connects the green and steel-grey palette of its municipal arms with local history, forests and steel. It does not explain the rings or hammer individually.
Source: Heraldica record 3269·Ockelbo kommun: Kommunens logotyper
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
- per pale
- field
- Argent
- Vert
- annulet (little ring)
- hammer
- three
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.
