Coat of arms of Skellefteå
Skellefteå’s arms show a gold sun in a blue field, beneath a wavy gold chief charged with a blue antique lightning bolt.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en bildad sol av guld och däröver en genom vågskura bildad ginstam av guld belagd med en blå åskvigg.
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
- 26 May 1944: Royal confirmation on
- 15 January 1988: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal graphic profile distinguishes the arms from other parts of its visual identity. The municipal blazon describes the sun, wavy chief and bolt.
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality explains that the bolt refers to electricity generation and the gold sun to gold production. The arms were adopted in 1945; after the municipal mergers of 1967 and 1973, they came to represent the whole present-day municipality.
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
- thunderbolt
- Azure
- sun in splendour
- chief
- 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.
