Coat of arms of Strängnäs
Strängnäs’s arms show Peter holding a key and Paul a sword on gold.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en Petrus av silver klädd röd med gloria av silver med blå hår med blå skägg hållande i dexter hand en blå nyckel och åtföljd till sinister av en sankt Paulus av silver klädd röd med gloria av silver med blå hår med blå skägg hållande i dexter hand ett blått svärd.
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 and their blazon
The municipal graphic profile presents the arms as a historic emblem of the town and municipality. The colours of the figures and objects follow the registry description.
Background in the municipal sources
The manual treats the arms separately from other parts of the municipal identity. We do not add a historical interpretation of the apostles that the source does not give.
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
- saint Paul
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- key
- saint Peter
- unpartitioned
- sword
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.
