Coat of arms of Uddevalla
Uddevalla’s arms show a green oak with gold acorns between two green fir trees on silver.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en grön ek med ekollon av guld åtföljd av två gröna granar.
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
- (1622): Used as a seal as of
- 5 September 1942: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality’s blazon names the oak, its gold acorns and the two firs. The municipality says the design continues an older seal showing an oak between two firs.
Background and the source’s interpretation
Uddevalla links the arms’ background to exports of sawn oak timber beginning in the sixteenth century. The municipality says permission to import timber in 1617 helped renew exports, and the seal’s trees symbolised fir exports following the oak trade. The current design dates from 1942.
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
- Argent
- oak
- Vert
- spruce
- 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.
