On the red helmet plate with a pointed sole, inside the area encirled by the silver-coloured double circle, divided by a Maltese cross the writing "SOPRON CIVITAS FIDELISSIMA" can be seen. Inside both of the silver-coloured circles there is a castle wall depicted, with five lancet windows and five ridges, out of which three towers are rising. The two toers on the sides have each a window and three ridges. In the upper corner on the right side of the coat of arms there is a golden-crowned woman's head, on the left side a golden-coloured, bearded man's head with a cross in the background. Both heads are circled by glory. In the helmet plate a golden olive-branch can be seen.

    In 1990 the Local Government of the City Sopron renewed the coat of arms by historical rights. The assembly of representatives of the County Rank City voted in favour of the emblem that was donated by the King of Hungary in the year 1340.  The "updating" of the emblem of 1340 has only been expressed by having modified the circumscription for "SOPRON CIVITAS FIDELISSIMA" and has not concerned the essential features of the coat-of-arms.

    Several specialists and non-specialists tried to interprete and explain the patterns of the coat of arms. According to these, the castle wall with the three towers and five lancet windows represents the medieval castle, the fortress-like city that was protected by powerful walls.

    The walls of the towers represent the justifiable self-protection. According to some, the "lancet windows" are to mean the wonderful medieval unity of the upwards striving architecture and humal soul. An other interpretation says, that "The ogived style expresses a statical solution invented by the architects' of that age. This new structure enabled them to transfer the enormous weights of slabs onto the buttresses."

    The meaning of the circumscription "SOPRON CIVITAS FIDELISSIMA": "SOPRON THE MOST FAITHFUL CITY". The town has received this title after the plebiscite of 1921.

    "The coat of arms of Sopron contains a rare representation of the "Patrona Hungariae"; here Virgin Mary is represented as a Queen, who sits enthroned next to her son, Jesus, just above the castle walls of Sopron... "

    The olive-branch represents serenity.