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Sollentuna Municipality (Sollentuna kommun) is a municipality
Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 Counties of Sweden ....
 in Stockholm County
Stockholm County

Stockholm County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n on the Baltic sea coast of Sweden. It borders the counties of Uppsala County and S?dermanland County....
 in east central Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. Its seat is located in Sollentuna.

Sollentuna borders the municipalities of Solna
Solna Municipality

----Solna Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, located just north of the Capital Stockholm....
, Sundbyberg
Sundbyberg Municipality

Sundbyberg Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the Capital Stockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urban population....
, Stockholm
Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is the largest of the 290 municipalities of the country in terms of population, but one of the smaller in terms of area, making it the most densely populated....
, Järfälla
Järfälla Municipality

J?rf?lla Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, and is considered a suburb of Stockholm. Its seat is located in Jakobsberg....
, Upplands Väsby
Upplands Väsby Municipality

Upplands V?sby Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Upplands V?sby, with a population of 35,977 ....
, Täby
Täby Municipality

T?by Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of T?by....
 and Danderyd
Danderyd Municipality

Danderyd Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden just north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent....
 in clockwise order starting to the south.

entuna evolved around the railway between Uppsala
Uppsala

Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest Cities of Sweden of Sweden with 128,409 inhabitants.Located about 70 km north of the capital Stockholm, it is also the seat of the Uppsala municipality ....
 and Stockholm
Stockholm

is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
 which is also obvious when looking at the 8 different districts that make up Sollentuna.






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Sollentuna Municipality (Sollentuna kommun) is a municipality
Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 Counties of Sweden ....
 in Stockholm County
Stockholm County

Stockholm County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n on the Baltic sea coast of Sweden. It borders the counties of Uppsala County and S?dermanland County....
 in east central Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. Its seat is located in Sollentuna.

Sollentuna borders the municipalities of Solna
Solna Municipality

----Solna Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, located just north of the Capital Stockholm....
, Sundbyberg
Sundbyberg Municipality

Sundbyberg Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the Capital Stockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urban population....
, Stockholm
Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is the largest of the 290 municipalities of the country in terms of population, but one of the smaller in terms of area, making it the most densely populated....
, Järfälla
Järfälla Municipality

J?rf?lla Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, and is considered a suburb of Stockholm. Its seat is located in Jakobsberg....
, Upplands Väsby
Upplands Väsby Municipality

Upplands V?sby Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Upplands V?sby, with a population of 35,977 ....
, Täby
Täby Municipality

T?by Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of T?by....
 and Danderyd
Danderyd Municipality

Danderyd Municipality is a municipalities of Sweden just north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent....
 in clockwise order starting to the south.

History

Sollentuna evolved around the railway between Uppsala
Uppsala

Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest Cities of Sweden of Sweden with 128,409 inhabitants.Located about 70 km north of the capital Stockholm, it is also the seat of the Uppsala municipality ....
 and Stockholm
Stockholm

is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
 which is also obvious when looking at the 8 different districts that make up Sollentuna. 5 of those corresponds 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
Edsberg, Sollentuna

Edsberg is an Urban_area district in Sollentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It is located at the bottom of the Edsviken, which forms a long inlet all the way from the Gulf of Bothnia....
 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
Motorway

Motorway is a term for both a type of road and a classification or designation. Motorways are high capacity roads designed to carry fast motor traffic safely....
 (E4) that approximates the same route as the railway.

Sollentuna received rights as a merchant town (köping
Köping

This article deals with the Swedish denomination for a market town. For the city, see K?ping, Sweden. For the municipality, see K?ping Municipality....
) in 1944. It never got a charter, but was made a municipality with the reform of 1971.

Politics and government

Sollentuna Municipality has a Municipal council
Municipal council

A municipal council is the local government of a municipality. Specifically the term can refer to the institutions of various countries that can be translated by this term....
 with 61 members elected by proportional representation
Proportional representation

Proportional representation , sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of voting systems aimed at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive ....
 through municipal elections, held in conjunction with the national parliamentary elections every four years. The Council elects an executive committee, 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
Moderate Party

The Moderate Party is a centre-right, Liberal conservatism List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of Conservatism in the Riksdag....
.

2006 election results

In the 2006 municipal elections, the seats in the Council are divided in the following way:
The governing partiesParties in opposition
  • The Moderate Party
    Moderate Party

    The Moderate Party is a centre-right, Liberal conservatism List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of Conservatism in the Riksdag....
     26
  • The Liberal People's Party
    Liberal People's Party (Sweden)

    The Liberal People's Party is a List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party advocates social liberalism and is part of the governing centre-right bloc Alliance for Sweden, which achieved a majority in the Swedish general election, 2006 of 17 September 2006....
     7
  • The Centre Party
    Centre Party (Sweden)

    The Centre Party is a Nordic Agrarian parties political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party"....
     2
  • The Christian Democrats
    Christian Democrats (Sweden)

    The Christian Democrats is a Politics of Sweden party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1964 but did not enter parliament until 1985 in an electoral cooperation with the Centre Party and on their own accord in 1991....
     4
  • The Swedish Social Democratic Party
    Swedish Social Democratic Party

    The Swedish Social Democratic Party, , contests elections as 'Labour' Party - Social Democrats' , commonly referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden....
     13
  • The Left Party
    Left Party (Sweden)

    The Left Party is a socialist and feminist Politics of Sweden party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party - Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations....
     2
  • The Sollentuna Party 5
  • The Green Party
    Green Party (Sweden)

    The Green Party is a Green political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1981 emerging out of the movement opposing nuclear power in a referendum held 1980....
     2


    • 2002 election results

    In the 2002 municipal elections, the seats in the Council are divided in the following way:
    The governing partiesParties in opposition
    • The Moderate Party
      Moderate Party

      The Moderate Party is a centre-right, Liberal conservatism List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of Conservatism in the Riksdag....
       19
    • The Liberal People's Party
      Liberal People's Party (Sweden)

      The Liberal People's Party is a List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party advocates social liberalism and is part of the governing centre-right bloc Alliance for Sweden, which achieved a majority in the Swedish general election, 2006 of 17 September 2006....
       11
    • The Centre Party
      Centre Party (Sweden)

      The Centre Party is a Nordic Agrarian parties political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party"....
       2
    • The Christian Democrats
      Christian Democrats (Sweden)

      The Christian Democrats is a Politics of Sweden party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1964 but did not enter parliament until 1985 in an electoral cooperation with the Centre Party and on their own accord in 1991....
       4
  • The Swedish Social Democratic Party
    Swedish Social Democratic Party

    The Swedish Social Democratic Party, , contests elections as 'Labour' Party - Social Democrats' , commonly referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden....
     16
  • The Left Party
    Left Party (Sweden)

    The Left Party is a socialist and feminist Politics of Sweden party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party - Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations....
     3
  • The Sollentuna Party 4
  • The Green Party
    Green Party (Sweden)

    The Green Party is a Green political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1981 emerging out of the movement opposing nuclear power in a referendum held 1980....
     2


    • List of mayors since 1971

    • (1971-1974) Urban Gibson (fp
      Liberal People's Party (Sweden)

      The Liberal People's Party is a List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party advocates social liberalism and is part of the governing centre-right bloc Alliance for Sweden, which achieved a majority in the Swedish general election, 2006 of 17 September 2006....
      )
    • (1974-1977) Carl-Erik Nilsson (c
      Centre Party (Sweden)

      The Centre Party is a Nordic Agrarian parties political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party"....
      )
    • (1977-1980) Sven Olle Isidor Persson (s
      Swedish Social Democratic Party

      The Swedish Social Democratic Party, , contests elections as 'Labour' Party - Social Democrats' , commonly referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden....
      )
    • (1980-1987) Jan-Olov Sundström (m
      Moderate Party

      The Moderate Party is a centre-right, Liberal conservatism List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of Conservatism in the Riksdag....
      )
    • (1987-1998) Gun Blomberg (m
      Moderate Party

      The Moderate Party is a centre-right, Liberal conservatism List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of Conservatism in the Riksdag....
      )
    • (1998-2000) Christina Naess (m
      Moderate Party

      The Moderate Party is a centre-right, Liberal conservatism List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of Conservatism in the Riksdag....
      )
    • (since 2000) Torbjörn Rosdahl (m
      Moderate Party

      The Moderate Party is a centre-right, Liberal conservatism List of political parties in Sweden in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of Conservatism in the Riksdag....
      )


    Localities and districts

    Since 1995 the bulk of the built-up area of the municipality is statistically counted to the mulitimunicipal Stockholm urban area
    Stockholm urban area

    The Stockholm urban area is the largest and most populous of the statistical localities or urban areas in Sweden. It has no administrative function of its own, but constitutes a continuous multimunicipal built-up area, which extends into 11 Municipalities of Sweden in Stockholm County....
    . 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
      Rotebro

      File:J?stbolaget001.JPGRotebro is a town in Stockholm county, Sweden, near Sollentuna. It is divided into two parts, Rotsunda and Gillbo, by the railway....
      , 8 632
    • Helenelund, 8,337
    • Edsberg
      Edsberg, Sollentuna

      Edsberg is an Urban_area district in Sollentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It is located at the bottom of the Edsviken, which forms a long inlet all the way from the Gulf of Bothnia....
      , 8,039
    • Viby, 5,744
    • Sjöberg, 4,404
    • Häggvik, 4,289
    • Norrviken, 3,326
    • Vaxmora, 2 234
    • Järvafältet, 58
    • Kärrdal,
    • Edsviken
      Edsviken

      Edsviken is an elongated, narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea running through the Sweden municipalities of Danderyd Municipality, Solna Municipality and Sollentuna Municipality....


    Lakes

    Central to the landscape of Sollentuna are the rather big lakes Norrviken and Edsviken
    Edsviken

    Edsviken is an elongated, narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea running through the Sweden municipalities of Danderyd Municipality, Solna Municipality and Sollentuna Municipality....
     -- the latter a bay of the Baltic Sea
    Baltic Sea

    The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
    .

    Norrviken is a popular lake for ice tour skating
    Tour skating

    Tour skating is a recreational form of long distance ice skating on natural ice.The Nordic style of Tour skating is often called Nordic Skating, trip skating or wild 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


    Sister cities

    Sollentuna has four sister cities:
    • Hvidovre
      Hvidovre

      Hvidovre Kommune is a municipality in Region Hovedstaden near Copenhagen on the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 22 square kilometre, and has a total population of 49,380 ....
       in Denmark
      Denmark

      Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
    • Saue
      Saue

      Saue is a Populated places in Estonia in north-western Estonia. Administratively it constitutes a separate urban Municipalities of Estonia in Harju County....
       in Estonia
      Estonia

      Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
    • Tuusula
      Tuusula

      Tuusula , is a municipalities of Finland of Finland. It belongs to the Helsinki sub-region of the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of ...
       in Finland
      Finland

      Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
    • Oppegård
      Oppegård

      Oppeg?rd is a village and Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kolbotn....
       in Norway
      Norway

      Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....


    Sights


    • Edsbacka krog
      Edsbacka krog

      Edsbacka krog is a restaurant on the banks of the Edsviken in Sollentuna, Sweden, just north of Stockholm. It is currently the only Swedish restaurant with 2 stars in the Michelin Guide....
      , located by Edsbacka lake and founded already in 1634, is the only Swedish restaurant with two stars in the Michelin Guide
      Michelin Guide

      The Michelin Guide is a series of annual guide books published by Michelin for over a dozen countries. The term refers by default to the Michelin Red Guide, the oldest and best-known European hotel and restaurant guide, which awards the Michelin stars....
      .
    • Edsbergs slott was built in rococo
      Rococo

      Rococo is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings....
       1760. Its 400 km² can be rented.
    • Probable burial mound of King Agne
      Agne

      Agne, Agni, Hogne or Agni Skj?lfarbondi was a mythological king of Sweden, of the Yngling.Snorri Sturluson relates that he was the son of Dag the Wise, and he was mighty and famous....
       from the 5th century.


    Notable natives and residents

    • Kajsa Bergqvist
      Kajsa Bergqvist

      Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist is a retired Sweden high jumper. She has won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships....
      , high jumping world champion
    • Thomas Bodström
      Thomas Bodström

      Thomas Lennart Bodstr?m was the Sweden Minister for Justice from 2000 to 2006. Since October 2006 he is the chairman of the Riksdags committee for justice....
      , football player, politician, former minister of justice
    • Ted Gärdestad
      Ted Gärdestad

      Ted G?rdestad , internationally known as Ted Gardestad, Ted Gaerdestad or just Ted was a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician....
      , pop musician
    • Jonatan Johansson
      Jonatan Johansson (snowboarder)

      Jonatan Johansson was a Sweden Olympic snowboarding from Sollentuna, Stockholms I?n.Johansson died following a failed jump landing during training for the International Ski Federation World Cup competition....
      , snowboarder
    • Ulrika Jonsson
      Ulrika Jonsson

      Eva Ulrika Jonsson is a Swedish-born British television presenter and occasional actress....
      , television presenter
    • Britta Leijon, politician
    • Christer Pettersson
      Christer Pettersson

      Christer Pettersson , Swedish hobo who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. In 1988, he was arrested, tried and convicted of the murder but was freed on appeal the following year....
      , Olof Palme
      Olof Palme

      Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Sweden politician.Palme was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until Olof Palme assassination in 1986....
       murder suspect
    • Rednex
      Rednex

      Rednex is a Sweden Manufactured music#Manufactured bands techno-country music band . They had an international novelty hit with the song "Cotton-Eyed Joe#Rednex version" in 1994....
      , country group
    • Farhad Shakely
      Farhad Shakely

      Farhad Shakely is a prominent Kurdish people writer, poet and researcher. He is one of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry in the post-Goran period....
      , poet
    • Sonic Dream Collective
      Sonic Dream Collective

      Sonic Dream Collective was a Sweden pop band from the city of Uppsala. They had their greatest success in 1995 with the song ?Oh, Baby All? which topped the Swedish national radio P3 Tracks chart....
      , pop group
    • Linda Skugge, writer, and husband Johan Skugge, musician
    • Mats Sundin
      Mats Sundin

      Mats Johan Sundin is a Swedish people professional ice hockey player with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . He has played most of his career up to this point with the Toronto Maple Leafs where, at the end of the 2007?08 NHL season, he had been the second-longest active serving captain in the NHL, behind Joe Sakic of the...
      , hockey player
    • Yngwie Malmsteen, guitarist, composer and bandleader
    • Johan Munck
      Johan Munck

      Johan Munck is a Sweden lawyer, currently serving as president of the Supreme Court of Sweden.Johan Munck was born in Malm?, Sk?ne County, the son of the lawyer and former mayor of Malm? Thomas Munck af Rosensch?ld....
      , Chief Justice of Sweden
    • Caroline Winberg
      Caroline Winberg

      Caroline Winberg is a Swedish people Model ....
      , Supermodel


    • Linda Ireblad, Co founder of Skolastic


    See also

    • Sollentuna Hundred


    External links

    • - Official site