Emmaboda’s municipal coat of arms consists of two basic colours: Gold and blue. The colours and design of our municipal coat of arms have been decided by the National Institute of Swedish Heraldry and cannot be changed.

The original municipal coat of arms is always printed on fabric. However, it is very difficult to reproduce on paper the colour combination of gold and blue and consequently, a simpler colour combination of blue/white is used on a daily basis. This also applies to emblems incorporating the coat of arms as used by the industry. To make our municipal coat of arms sought after and exclusive, profile products with our original municipal coat of arms are only distributed on special occasions.

History

The existing coat of arms was designed on 6 November 1952 by the National Institute of Swedish Heraldry in Stockholm on behalf of Emmaboda Municipal Council.

Emmaboda’s municipal coat of arms has always comprised ‘a blue forked cross in a field of gold with unstrained crossbows on either side and above of the cross’.

Symbolism

Mr Uno Lindgren, the Ex-Commissioner of the National Institute of Swedish Heraldry in Stockholm, says in a letter from 1952 that ‘Emmaboda is primarily known as a railway intersection community and such communication intersections of importance to the history of heraldry are usually symbolised by a cross design...’ In Emmaboda’s coat of arms, the forked cross represents the railway intersection between Växjö, Kalmar and Karlskrona.
The crossbows in a field of gold originate from the county district of Södra Möre which from the Middle Ages until 1889 incorporated the municipality of Vissefjärda. The crossbow has since been inherited as a symbol for our region from Emmaboda’s municipal coat of arms to today’s coat of arms.  

Coat of arms today

The coat of arms was given to Emmaboda municipality in 1972 when Långasjö parish, Älmeboda and Emmaboda municipals were merged into one large municipal district.