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Encyclopedia > Swedish heraldry

There are 290 municipalities in Sweden. Each has its own coat of arms. In Sweden, all municipalities that once had city rights can, if they chose, have a crown ontop of their coat of arms.


Landskrona is unique as it officially has women holding the shield, and the crown is also a part of the arms itself. Landskrona is a municipality and town in Scania in southernmost Sweden. ...


sv:Landskrona kommunvapen Landskrona vapen tilldelades staden kort tid efter att Skåne hade erövrats av Sverige, och uppvisar vissa unika detaljer. Inget annat svenskt kommunvapen har sköldhållare och den krona som finns ovanpå skölden finns inte någon annanstans utan är beskriven till sitt innehåll i blasoneringen. Eftersom Landskrona var stad har kommunen teoretiskt sett också möjlighet att kröna skölden med en murkrona, men så görs aldrig eftersom Landskrona har sin alldeles egna krona.


Texten i bilden ovan ingår naturligtvis egentligen inte i vapnet.


Under den danska tiden hade Landskrona ett vapen som närmast motsvarade det nuvarande vapnets första fält, med en sluten krona.


Kristianstad shows the insignia of the Danish Monarch Christian IV of Denmark. Kristianstad is a municipality and city in Scania in southernmost Sweden. ... An image of Christian IV. Christian IV (1577–1648), king of Denmark and Norway, the son of Frederick II, king of Denmark and Norway, and Sophia of Mecklenburg, was born at Frederiksborg castle in 1577, and succeeded to the throne on the death of his father (April 4, 1588), attaining...


Östra Göinge The city arms depicts two palm trees crossing each other, a traditional symbol of peace and unity. It came into use after the treaty of Roskilde.


Sundsvall uses a symbol in all official documents and on its website. Its also has a city arms, with a history back to 1624, symbolizing its military history. Sundsvall is a City and a Municipality in Västernorrland County, northern Sweden. ...


Strömsund has no historical City arms, but its symbol was registered with the municipal reform in the 70's and is regarded as one, looking like a traditional city arms.


Resources

  • Elias Granqvists sida om heraldik i Sverige (http://goto.glocalnet.net/elias/heraldik.htm)
  • International Civic Heraldry (http://www.ngw.nl/index.htm)

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Lappland (287 words)
The historical province of Lappland is divided between the Swedish County of Norrbotten, in the north, County of Västerbotten, in the south and the Finnish administrative Province of Lapland in the east.
The division into a Swedish western part and a Finnish eastern part was caused when Sweden was forced to cede all of Finland and eastern Norrland to Russia in 1809.
Blazon Swedish version: "Argent, a Wildman stantant Gules wrapped with birch leaves Vert on the head and around the waist holding a Club Or in dexter over the shoulder." The Finnish version has reversed the tinctures for the shield and the wildman in natural colors and it has kept the original countal coronet.
Gotland (288 words)
By the Treaty of Brömsebro[?] in 1645 the island was returned to Swedish rule.
Christopher Polhem[?] (1661-1751), the father of Swedish mechanical physics was born in Visby.
The inhabitants of Gotland traditionally speak a distinct dialect of Swedish, known as Gutnish.
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