Sollentuna Municipality
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| County | Stockholm County |
| Province | Uppland |
| Seat | Sollentuna |
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| Population • Total |
34th of 290 60,528 inhabitants |
| Area • Total area • Land area • Water area |
282nd of 290 56.16 km² 52.94 km² |
| Density • Total |
8th of 290 1,143.3 inhabitants/km² |
| Municipal code | 0163[1] |
| Website | www.sollentuna.se |
| Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2006 | |
Sollentuna Municipality (Sollentuna kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Sollentuna.
Sollentuna borders the municipalities of Solna, Sundbyberg, Stockholm, Järfälla, Upplands Väsby, Täby and Danderyd in clockwise order starting to the south.
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[edit] History
Sollentuna municipality was founded in conjunction with the reform of local government in Sweden in 1863. However, its boundaries are equivalent to those of Sollentuna Parish, which dates back to the 12th century. Well into the 20th century, Sollentuna was a predominantly rural area.
Modern Sollentuna evolved around the railway between Uppsala and Stockholm, inaugurated in 1866. In fact, five of the eight districts that make up Sollentuna today, correspond to railway stations, now operated by commuter trains. From south to north: Helenelund, Tureberg (railway station is named Sollentuna), Häggvik, Norrviken and Rotebro. Viby is an extension of Norrviken and the 2 remaining districts - Edsberg and Sjöberg - are to be found along the road to Danderyd. Other roads into Sollentuna includes the road from Kallhäll to Rotebro and the motorway (E4) that approximates the same route as the railway.
Sollentuna received rights as a merchant town (köping) in 1944. It never got a charter, and köping status was made obsolete by the municipal reform of 1971.
[edit] Politics and government
Sollentuna Municipality has a municipal assembly with 61 members elected by proportional representation through municipal elections, held in conjunction with the national parliamentary elections every four years. The assembly elects a municipal board, (kommunstyrelse) which is the municipality's main governing body, chaired by the Mayor (sw. kommunstyrelsens ordförande). The current mayor is Torbjörn Rosdahl, of the Moderate Party.
[edit] 2006 election results
In the 2006 municipal elections, the seats in the Council are divided in the following way:
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[edit] 2002 election results
In the 2002 municipal elections, the seats in the Council are divided in the following way:
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[edit] List of mayors since 1971
- (1971-1974) Urban Gibson (fp)
- (1974-1977) Carl-Erik Nilsson (c)
- (1977-1980) Sven Olle Isidor Persson (s)
- (1980-1987) Jan-Olov Sundström (m)
- (1987-1998) Gun Blomberg (m)
- (1998-2000) Christina Naess (m)
- (since 2000) Torbjörn Rosdahl (m)
[edit] Localities and districts
Since 1995 the bulk of the built-up area of the municipality is statistically counted to the mulitimunicipal Stockholm urban area. A few houses on the eastern border (with about 10 inh.) is in Täby urban area. Sjöberg is constituting a locality of its own.
The municipality is subdivided into the following districts:
- Tureberg, 13 380 inh.
- Rotebro, 8 632
- Helenelund, 8,337
- Edsberg, 8,039
- Viby, 5,744
- Sjöberg, 4,404
- Häggvik, 4,289
- Norrviken, 3,326
- Vaxmora, 2 234
- Järvafältet, 58
- Kärrdal,
- Edsviken
[edit] Lakes
Central to the landscape of Sollentuna are the rather big lakes Norrviken and Edsviken -- the latter a bay of the Baltic Sea.
Edsviken and Norrviken is a popular lake´s for ice tour skating during the winter. The municipality plows a 15 km long skating track on Norrviken. Note that Norrviken is also the name of a district at the western shore of the Norrviken lake.
Other lakes:
- Fjäturen
- Ravalen
- Rösjön
- Väsjön
- Översjön
- Snuggan
- Djupan
[edit] Sister cities
Sollentuna has four sister cities:
[edit] Sights
- Edsbacka krog, located by Edsbacka lake and founded already in 1634, is the only Swedish restaurant with two stars in the Michelin Guide.
- Edsbergs slott was built in rococo 1760. Its 400 km² can be rented.
- Probable burial mound of King Agne from the 5th century.
[edit] Notable natives and residents
- Kajsa Bergqvist, high jumping world champion
- Thomas Bodström, football player, politician, former minister of justice
- Ted Gärdestad, pop musician
- Jonatan Johansson, snowboarder
- Ulrika Jonsson, television presenter
- Britta Leijon, politician
- Christer Pettersson, Olof Palme murder suspect
- Rednex, country group
- Farhad Shakely, poet
- Sonic Dream Collective, pop group
- Linda Skugge, writer, and husband Johan Skugge, musician
- Mats Sundin, hockey player
- Yngwie Malmsteen, guitarist, composer and bandleader
- Johan Munck, Chief Justice of Sweden
- Caroline Winberg, Supermodel
- Jonas Bane, Actor
- Linda Ireblad, Co founder of Skol Tastic
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Sollentuna Municipality - Official site
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