Sollentuna Municipality

Sollentuna kommun
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms
Country	Sweden
County	Stockholm County
Seat	Sollentuna
Area
• Total	58.322811 km2 (22.518563 sq mi)
• Land	52.942811 km2 (20.441334 sq mi)
• Water	5.38 km2 (2.08 sq mi)
	Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population (June 30, 2010)
• Total	63,999
• Density	1,097.324/km2 (2,842.055/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Uppland
Municipal code	0163
Website	www.sollentuna.se
Density is calculated using land area only.

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.

History

Sollentuna municipality was founded in conjunction with the reform of local government in Sweden in 1863. However, its boundaries are almost 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.

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 Douglas Lithborn, of the Moderate Party.

2010 election results

In the 2010 municipal elections, the seats in the Council are divided in the following way:

The governing parties	Parties in opposition
The Moderate Party 26 The Liberal People's Party 7 The Centre Party 2 The Christian Democrats 2	The Swedish Social Democratic Party 11 The Left Party 2 The Sollentuna Party 6 The Green Party 4 The Sweden Democrats 1

2006 election results

In the 2006 municipal elections, the seats in the Council are divided in the following way:

The governing parties	Parties in opposition
The Moderate Party 26 The Liberal People's Party 7 The Centre Party 2 The Christian Democrats 4	The Swedish Social Democratic Party 13 The Left Party 2 The Sollentuna Party 5 The Green Party 2

2002 election results

In the 2002 municipal elections, the seats in the Council are divided in the following way:

The governing parties	Parties in opposition
The Moderate Party 19 The Liberal People's Party 11 The Centre Party 2 The Christian Democrats 4	The Swedish Social Democratic Party 16 The Left Party 3 The Sollentuna Party 4 The Green Party 2

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)
• (2000–2010) Torbjörn Rosdahl (m)
• (since 2010) Douglas Lithborn (m)

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

Lakes

Central to the landscape of Sollentuna are the rather big lakes Norrviken and Edsviken -- the latter a bay of the Baltic Sea.

Lake Norrviken

Edsviken and Norrviken are popular lakes 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

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

Twin towns — sister cities

The municipality is twinned with:

• Hvidovre in Denmark
• Saue in Estonia
• Tuusula in Finland
• Oppegård in Norway

Sights

Edsbergs slott

• Edsbacka krog, located by Edsbacka lake and founded already in 1634, was 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.

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Sollentuna Municipality:

• Rotebro IS FF
• Sollentuna United FF

Notable people

• Jonas Bane, actor
• Kajsa Bergqvist, high jumping world champion
• Thomas Bodström, football player, politician, former minister of justice
• Ted Gärdestad, pop musician
• Maia Hirasawa, musician
• Patric Hörnqvist, hockey player
• Jonatan Johansson, snowboarder
• Ulrika Jonsson, television presenter
• Christer Pettersson, Olof Palme murder suspect
• Rednex, country pop group
• Farhad Shakely, poet
• Sonic Dream Collective, pop group
• Linda Skugge, writer
• Mats Sundin, hockey player
• Yngwie Malmsteen, guitarist, composer and bandleader
• Johan Munck, Chief Justice of Sweden
• Caroline Winberg, model

See also

• Sollentuna Hundred

External links

• Sollentuna Municipality - Official site