Sollentuna Parish

Sollentuna socken is a former socken of Sollentuna Hundred in Uppland, Sweden. The area largely corresponds to the modern Sollentuna Municipality, but not completely. Hansta was incorporated into in 1980, while other localities (such as Silverdal) were incorporated into the municipality from other parishes.

The parish encompassed an area of approximately 49.50 square kilometres (19.11 sq mi), whereof 46.08 square kilometres (17.79 sq mi) were land.Edsberg Castle, the seat farm of Sollentunaholm, the locality of Sjöberg, the municipal districts of Rotebro, Viby, Norrviken, Vaxmora, Häggvik, Edsberg, Tureberg, and Helenelund as well as Sollentuna Station and the parish church of Sollentuna were located in the parish.

Sollentuna Parish was located north of , around the northern parts of Edsviken and the southern parts of Norrviken and straddling the esker, running in a north-south direction. The parish was mostly low-lying farmland surrounded by wooded hills reaching up to 70 metres (230 ft) above mean sea level.

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.

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.

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