Stockholm (Sweden)

Last modified: 2014-05-29 by zoltán horváth
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image by Erik Göthe
The flag is a banner of the arms; arms dating from 1376, formally granted on 19 January 1934.

• About the flag

See also:

• Upland, where Stockholm is partly situated
• Södermanland, where Stockholm is partly situated
• County of Stockholm (Stockholms län) where Stockholm is situated
• Municipal flags (Sweden)
• Ports of Stockholm
• Stockholm Rowing Club
• Sweden

External link:

• The flag of the city of Stockholm in an image on Wikimedia Commons

About the flag

The man in the Stockholm arms should be St. Erik (patron saint of Sweden) but when the city wanted to standardize the arms in the 1930's, the artist used a statue in an old church as a model, a statue that later on has been identified as St. Olof (patron saint of Norway - though very appreciated in Sweden too in the catholic era).
Elias Granqvist, 3 October 2000