Coat of arms of Östhammar
Östhammar’s arms show a ship and iron marks.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en röd ginstam belagd med tre järnmärken av guld, ett tremastat svart skepp.
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 here. The editorial text below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 16 February 1979: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipality says the arms form part of its logo and have been used since the municipal merger in 1974. Its page does not specify every motif’s exact colour or placement.
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality says the ship was already present in Öregrund’s town arms in 1948 and that the iron marks refer to ironworking in Dannemora. We do not extend this interpretation to individual marks.
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
- field
- Or
- Gules
- Sable
- ship
- iron symbol
- chief
- three
- 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.
