Coat of arms of Tierp
Tierp’s arms show a gold hop branch with an ear of grain and two hop leaves on red.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I rött fält en humlekvist av guld med utväxande ett sädesax av guld och med utväxande två humleblad av guld.
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
- 7 October 1977: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal graphic profile describes a hop branch with an ear of grain and two leaves growing from the branch.
Source: Tierps kommun: Grafisk profil
Background in the municipal sources
The description of the design is kept separate from any possible meaning of the plants. The municipal guideline does not support a specific historical interpretation here.
Source: Tierps 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
- Or
- Gules
- hop leaf
- hops branch
- ear
- two
- 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.
