Coat of arms of Uppvidinge
Uppvidinge’s arms show a two-leaved red plant with a bell-shaped calyx on gold within a red bordure.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en röd bård, en röd ört.
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
- (1568): Used as a seal as of
- 29 June 1964: Royal confirmation on
- 16 July 1976: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipality traces the motif to the district seal of 1568. A red bordure was added when the current municipal arms were composed in 1975.
Background in the municipal sources
The plant has not been identified botanically. The municipality says the bordure distinguishes the municipal arms from the older district arms because their boundaries differed.
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
- bordure
- herbaceous
- field
- Or
- Gules
- 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.
