Socken

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Ekers socken in Närke on a map of Örebro hundred

Socken (Swedish:

Norway and Denmark. Today it is a traditional area with frozen borders, in Sweden typically identical to those of the early 20th century country-side parishes. The socken also served as a registration unit for buildings, in Sweden recently replaced by identical districts as registration unit. A socken consists of several villages and industry localities (company towns
), and is typically named after the main village and the original church.

Sweden

History

Socken, in

civil parishes in England, but the concept is not used in reference to towns. A socken had a socken church, it was governed by a socken council and it was the predecessor to modern municipalities[4][5]

In 1862, the kyrksockens ("church socken") and the sockenkommuns ("rural area locality") in Sweden were abolished as administrative areas during municipality reforms. The jordbrukssocken ("taxation area") remained in use until the Fastighetsdatareformen ("Reform for registration of real property") 1976–1995 was complete.[6] No further alterations to the sockens was made after this.

On 1 January 2016, a new administrative division and area for statistics, registration districts or simply districts, was introduced in Sweden. Geographically, the districts correspond with the parishes of the Church of Sweden as of 31 December 1999. About 85% of the old sockens corresponds with the new districts.[7][8][9]

Even though the term socken is no longer used administratively in Sweden, it is still used for cataloging and registering historical archives (Swedish National Heritage Board), botany, dialect research, toponymy and by local historical societies. Socken is a convenient parameter for these purposes since it does not change with time.[10]

Lists of sockens

Skåne, a place where socken is in use
Gotland, a place where socken is in use
Dalarna, a place where socken is in use

See also

References

  1. ^ ""Socken" in Svenska Akademiens ordbok". Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  2. . Retrieved 15 June 2014.
  3. . Retrieved 15 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Svenska akademins ordbok". www.saob.se. Svenska Akademin. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
  5. . Retrieved 15 June 2014.
  6. ^ "Förordning (1983:594) om genomförande av fastighetsdatareformen". www.riksdagen.se. Justitiedepartementet F2. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
  7. ^ "Distriktsindelning i folkbokföringen". Swedish National Heritage Board. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  8. ^ "SFS 2015:493 Förordning om district" (PDF). Swedish Code of Statutes. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  9. ^ "Nya folkbokföringsdistrikt" (PDF). Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) In: Lantmäteriet 2014. Lantmäteriet. accessdate=23 May 2016.
  10. . Retrieved 15 June 2014.

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