Urjala

URJALA

Region : Pirkanmaa
Former province : 1997-2009 Länsi-Suomi (until 1997 Häme)

Official blazon

Punaisessa kentässä hopeinen apilaristi, jonka kustakin kulmasta lähtee kultainen liekki.

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on June 13, 1955.

The cross bottony symbolises agriculture and the ancestral spiritual culture. The flames symbolise how the peat from the area's peat bogs has been exploited and swamps were converted to cultivated soil.

The arms on a road sign

Literature : Pirinen, K. Local coats of arms in Finland (Suomen kunnallisvaakunat), Vantaa, 1982, 216 p.

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