Danmark (Uppsala)

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Danmark
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Danmark
Danmark
Localization of Uppsala in Sweden
State : Sweden
Province  (län): Uppsala län
Historical Province (landskap): Uppland
Municipality  : Uppsala
Coordinates : 59 ° 50 ′  N , 17 ° 44 ′  E Coordinates: 59 ° 50 ′  N , 17 ° 44 ′  E
SCB code : 0530
Status: Crime scene
Residents : 453 (December 31, 2015)
Area : 0.54 km²
Population density : 839 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Uppsala County

Denmark is a place ( Tätort ) in the municipality of Uppsala in central Sweden Uppsala County eight kilometers south of the provincial capital of Uppsala on the European route E4 .

There are different opinions about the origin and meaning of the place name. According to this, Danmark is said to have either been the original home of the Danes before they broke away from the Swedes and moved to Denmark in the 6th century (via Scania), or to have been named after Danish Vikings who settled in the 9th or 10th century (on Mälaren ) should have settled in Uppland . According to the Swedish list of place names, the name can be traced back to the dialectal word dan (moor, swamp, plains) and the old word for border / border forest mark , which could indicate an area near or between the historical landscapes of Tiundaland and Attundaland. A rune stone attesting to the Christianization of the place comes from the 10th or 11th century, but the Danmark church was not mentioned before 1291.

As part of the Swedish parish reforms of 1862, 1952, 1967 and 1971, the once 54.31 km² large Socken (parish) Danmark was finally subordinated to the parish of Uppsala, in 2010 the parish of Danmark was merged with that of Funbo .

  • Danmark Church

  • Church from the inside

  • Runestone

  • Another runestone

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
  2. ↑ James William Barnes Steveni : Unknown Sweden . London / Southampton 1925, pp. 39, 170 and 322
  3. ↑ Ulla Ehrensvärd, Pellervo Kokkonen, Juha Nurminen: The Baltic Sea - 2000 years of seafaring, trade and culture . National Geographic, Hamburg 2010, p. 31
  4. ^ Mats Wahlberg, ed . : Svenskt ortnamnlexikon . Språk- och folkminneinstitutet, Uppsala 2003, p. 58.
  5. ↑ Denmark . In: Bernhard Meijer, Theodor Westrin (ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 5 : Cestius-Degas . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1906, Sp. 1263 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  6. ↑ Denmark . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 5 : Cikorie – Demersale . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1916, p. 744 (Danish, runeberg.org ).