Coat of arms of Skurup
Skurup’s arms show a green sycamore maple above three green roundels on silver.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en grön lönn varunder tre gröna rundlar 1 + 2.
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
- 27 March 1987: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal profile identifies the tree as a sycamore maple (Swedish: tysk lönn) and places one roundel above two. The municipality says the arms were adopted in 1986.
Source: Skurups kommun: Grafisk profil·Artsdatabanken: Platanlønn (Acer pseudoplatanus)
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality says the tree recalls an old tree on Zimmerman’s hill. The source suggests that the roundels may represent ancient burial mounds, but presents this as uncertain.
Source: Skurups kommun: Grafisk profil
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
- Argent
- pomme
- indeterminable tincture
- Vert
- maple
- 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.
