Sollentuna Municipality

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**Sollentuna Municipality (*Kommun*)**
The municipality and seat in Stockholm County Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Sollentuna
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	County	Stockholm County
	Province	Uppland
	Area Rank	List_of_municipalities_of_Sweden_by_area>83rd of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	List_of_municipalities_of_Sweden_by_population>34h of 290
	Density	1105/km²

Sollentuna municipality is a Municipality in Stockholm County, in central Sweden. Sollentuna borders the municipalities of Solna, Sundbyberg, Stockholm, Järfälla, Upplands Väsby, Täby and Danderyd in clockwise order starting to the south.

The current mayor of Sollentuna Municipality is Torbjörn Rosdahl, of the Moderate Party.

History

Sollentuna evolved around the railway between Uppsala and Stockholm 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 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, but was made a municipality with the reform of 1971.

Politics & Government

Sollentuna Municipality has a legislative Council with 61 members elected by proportional representation through municipal elections, held in conjunction with the national parliamentary elections every four years. The Council elects an executive committee, which is the municipalty's main governing body, chaired by the Mayor. The current mayor is Torbjörn Rosdahl, of the Moderate Party.

2002 election results

Following 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 Swedish Left Party 3 The Sollentuna Party 4 The Swedish 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)
(since 2000) Torbjörn Rosdahl (m)

Geography

The towns in Sollentuna have grown together into one town. Instead the municipality is subdivided into districts. They are:

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

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

Norrviken is a popular lake for ice skating during the winter. 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 in Denmark
Saue in Estonia
Tusby in Finland
Oppegård in Norway

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.

Notable natives & residents

Kajsa Bergqvist, high jumping world champion
Thomas Bodström, soccer player, politician, minister of justice
Ted Gärdestad, pop musician
Jonatan Johansson, snowboarder
Ulrika Jonsson, television presenter
Britta Leijon, politician
Christer Pettersson, Olof Palme murder suspect and local hobo
Rednex, country group
Farhad Shakely, poet
Sonic Dream Collective, pop group
Linda Skugge, writer
Mats Sundin, hockey player

Reference

Much material translated from corresponding articles on Swedish wikipedia.

External links

[Sollentuna] - Official site

Stockholm County

Counties of Sweden | Sweden

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