Coat of arms of Sigtuna
Sigtuna Municipality’s graphic manual shows a gold crown and three six-pointed stars on a blue shield. The municipality links the motif to a 1311 seal and dates the arms’ establishment to 1971.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en krona av guld åtföljd av tre sexuddiga stjärnor av silver 2 + 1.
The automatically assembled Swedish wording in the Heraldica record is separate registry information. The municipal graphic manual describes the arms as part of the logo; it is not presented here as confirmation of the registry wording or as an independent official blazon.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- (1311): Used as a seal as of
- 27 November 1970: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The description in the municipal graphic manual
Sigtuna Municipality’s graphic manual describes the arms in its logo as a blue shield with a gold crown between three six-pointed silver stars. This is the depiction described in the municipal manual; it does not prescribe the details of any particular drawing.
Source: Sigtuna kommun: Grafisk manual
The motif’s history and the municipality’s interpretation
The municipality says the arms were established in 1971, when Sigtuna Municipality was formed by merging Sigtuna and Märsta. The motif had appeared earlier on Sigtuna city’s seal in 1311. The manual says the crown denotes an important place and may suggest that the city was a royal seat. The municipality says the original meaning of the three stars is not known.
Source: Sigtuna kommun: Grafisk manual
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
- Argent
- Azure
- mullet of six points
- three
- unpartitioned
- coronet
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.
