Sollentuna socken is a former

socken Socken is the name used for a part of a county in Sweden. In Denmark similar areas are known as ''sogn'', in Norway ''sokn'' or ''sogn'' and in Finland ''pitäjä'' ''(socken)''. A socken is a country-side area that was formed around a church, ...

Sollentuna Hundred Sollentuna Hundred ( sv, Sollentuna härad) was a hundred of Uppland in Sweden. It encompassed the present-day municipalities of Järfälla, Sollentuna, and Sundbyberg as well as parts of Upplands Väsby Municipality ( Eds socken) and Stockholm ...

Uppland Uppland () is a historical province or ' on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. On the small uninhab ...

, Sweden. The area largely corresponds to the modern

Sollentuna Municipality Sollentuna Municipality ( ) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east-central Sweden, north of Stockholm. Its seat of local government is located in Tureberg, which is a part of Sollentuna urban area. Geography Sollentuna borders the m ...

, but not completely. Hansta was incorporated into

Stockholm Municipality Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm ( sv, Stockholms kommun or ) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It has the largest population of the 290 municipalities of the country, but one of the smallest areas, maki ...

in 1980, while other localities (such as Silverdal) were incorporated into the municipality from other parishes. The parish encompassed an area of approximately , whereof were land.''

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'' andra upplagan 1947-1955
Sollentuna socken

Edsberg Castle Edsbergs slott (Edsberg Manor) is a manor house and estate located by the bay of Edsviken in Sollentuna Municipality, north of Stockholm, Sweden. History The building was constructed around 1630 as an estate for Henrik Olofsson. It was very so ...

, the

seat farm In Scandinavia, a seat farm (Danish: ''sædegård''; Norwegian: ''setegård''/''setegard''; Swedish: ''sätesgård'' or ''säteri''; Finnish: ''säteriratsutila'') was a farm where a nobleman had his permanent residence. They were found in the Kin ...

of Sollentunaholm, the locality of Sjöberg, the municipal districts of

Rotebro Rotebro () is a neighbourhood of Sollentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, and is part of Stockholm. It is divided into two parts, Rotsunda and Gillbo, by the railway. Rotebro is located in the northernmost part of Sollentuna Municipal ...

, Viby, Norrviken, Vaxmora, Häggvik, Edsberg, Tureberg, and Helenelund as well as

Sollentuna Station Sollentuna is one of the five stations of the Stockholm commuter rail in Sollentuna Municipality. It is situated in the neighbourhood of Tureberg 13.3 km north of Stockholm Central Station. The station was originally called ''Tureberg'' and w ...

and the parish church of Sollentuna were located in the parish.

Geography

Sollentuna Parish was located north of

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, around the northern parts of

Edsviken Edsviken is an elongated, narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea running through the Swedish municipalities of Danderyd, Solna and Sollentuna in Stockholm County. Edsviken ranges from Stocksund and Bergshamra, Solna in the south to Edsberg in the north. ...

and the southern parts of Norrviken and straddling the

Stockholmsåsen Stockholmsåsen, is a long esker stretching from southern Uppland to northeastern Södermanland, in Stockholm County, Sweden. The esker extends from Arlanda to Jordbro and Västerhaninge, passing through Stockholm where it is known as Brunkebergså ...

esker An esker, eskar, eschar, or os, sometimes called an ''asar'', ''osar'', or ''serpent kame'', is a long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North Amer ...

, running in a north-south direction. The parish was mostly low-lying farmland surrounded by wooded hills reaching up to

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Etymology

The name (written as ''Solendatunum'' in 1287) was taken from the church village. The ending ''tuna'' traces its roots to an archaic word for 'enclosure'. The beginning of the word is from the name ''soländar'', which denotes an inhabitant of ''Soland''. This derives in turn from the word ''land'', meaning 'village', and likely the prefix ''sol'', meaning 'sun'. This has a somewhat ambiguous interpretation, but may have referred to a sunlit place.

Administrative history

Sollentuna Parish is first found in written records in 1287 (as 'de Solendatunum'). The oldest parts of Sollentuna Church Sollentuna were built around the end of the 12th century. With the municipality reform of 1862, the ecclesiastical and civil functions of the parish were separated. The religious responsibilities fell to the local

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of the

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(), while the secular responsibilities fell to Sollentuna landskommun. The ''

landskommun Maalaiskunta (Finnish), landskommun (Swedish), "rural municipality", abbreviated ''mlk'' was one of the four types of municipality in Finland in 1865–1976. Other types in 1865–1959 were city (in Finnish ''kaupunki'') and market town (in Finnis ...

'' became

Sollentuna köping Sollentuna Köping was a ''köping'' in Sollentuna Hundred. In 1971, it was reformed into Sollentuna Municipality Sollentuna Municipality ( ) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east-central Sweden, north of Stockholm. Its seat of local go ...

in 1944, which in turn became the modern

in 1971. Men from the parish were

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into the Life Regiment Dragoons Corps. Sailors were conscripted into the ''Södra Roslags 2:a båtsmanskompani''.

Historical and archaeological sites

There are a number of '' gravrösen'' (a sort of

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) dating back to the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...

scattered throughout the municipality. There are also around 60 burial sites, a

tumulus A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or ''kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones buil ...

over in diameter, and five

hill forts A hillfort is a type of earthwork used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze Age or Iron Age. Some were used in the post-Roma ...

from the

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...

. A dozen

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inscriptions have been found.'' Fornminnesregistret'',

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Sollentuna socken
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References

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