Coat of arms of Stenungsund
Stenungsund’s arms place a blue wavy line and a pattern of black and red circles on silver.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en genom vågskura bildad blå stam, tre bjälkvis ordnade svarta rundlar förenad med sex röda rundlar.
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
- 4 March 1977: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality describes the circles as a stylised hydrocarbon molecule and the wave as representing the municipality’s coastal location.
Background and the source’s interpretation
The arms were registered in 1977. The municipality says several designs were considered; the chosen hydrocarbon molecule refers to Stenungsund’s petrochemical industry and the wave to its location by the sea.
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
- Azure
- torteau
- indeterminable tincture
- base wavy
- pellet
- three
- six
- 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.
