Coat of arms of Umeå
Umeå’s arms show three reindeer heads on blue.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält tre avhuggna röda renhuvuden av silver 2 + 1 med beväringar.
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
- (1642): Used as a seal as of
- 30 December 1947: Royal confirmation on
- 30 March 1979: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
Umeå Municipality’s history page says the motif of three reindeer heads first appeared in the city arms in 1642. Their placement has shifted, but their number has remained three.
Background and the source’s interpretation
The municipality says the motif first appeared in the city arms in 1642 and was established by the king in 1646. It derives from Västerbotten’s provincial arms, which show a whole reindeer.
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
- Gules
- Azure
- reindeer's head
- 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.
