Coat of arms of Värnamo
Värnamo’s arms show a yellow shield divided by a blue wavy line.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en genom vågskura bildad blå bjälke eller en bjälkvis ställd blå ström.
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 November 1921: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal graphic profile describes the yellow shield and the blue wave line that divides it.
Source: Värnamo kommun: Grafisk profil
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality says the blue stream represents the River Lagan and the gold fields represent “Värnamo sand”, the drifting sand outside the town. Värnamo received town rights in 1920 and adopted the arms the following year; they were established for the expanded municipality in 1972.
Source: Värnamo 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
- fess
- field
- Or
- Azure
- stream
- 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.
