Vetlanda

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VETLANDA

Province (Landskap): Småland
County (Län): Jönköpings län
Additions : 1971 Alseda (1952 Karlstorp, Skede, Ökna), Björkö (1952 Nävelsjö), Bäckaby (partly, 1952 Fröderyd, Ramkvilla, Skepperstad), Korsberga (1952 Lemnhult, Södra Solberga), Lannaskede (1952 Myresjö), Nye (1952 Näshult, Skirö,h Stenberga), Vetlanda rural municipality (1952 Bäckseda, Näsby)

Official blason

En sköld av guld med en blå snedbjälke, belagd med ett veteax av nämnda metall.

Origin/meaning

The arms were registered in 1974. The arms were first granted to the town of Vetlanda in 1925 and transferred to the new municipality in 1974.

The arms were based in the 1920s on a 'medieval seal' of the 'Kingdom Vithala'. The Kingdom never existed and the seal, which already showed a bend with a ear of an undefined grain, was a forgery probably based on an original medieval seal. Even though the hiestory was fake, the State Herald decided in 1925 to grant the design as new arms for the municipality. The ear was now described as wheat.