Coat of arms of Växjö
Växjö’s arms show Saint Sigfrid standing above a blue wavy band on silver, holding a staff and a church.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en genom vågskura bildad blå stam, en stående naturfärgad sankt Sigfrid klädd röd med gloria av guld hållande i dexter hand en kräkla av guld och hållande i sinister hand en kyrka 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
- (1489): Used as a seal as of
- 15 September 1939: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal document depicts Sigfrid in red with a gold halo, a gold crozier and a gold church.
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality identifies the figure as Saint Sigfrid, but the source does not support separate historical claims about every detail in the arms.
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
- Sigfrid of Sweden
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- Proper
- church
- base wavy
- crosier
- 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.
