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Järna, Södertälje Municipality

urban area in Södertälje Municipality, Sweden

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1456393 ↗
Source-derived summary

Järna is a locality situated in Södertälje Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 6,377 inhabitants in 2010.

Järna has long been the centre of the anthroposophical movement in Sweden, and there is a private clinic, several schools and other institutions affiliated with the movement. A lot of the buildings, in the nearby village of Ytterjärna, are designed by the Danish-born anthroposophical architect Erik Asmussen (1913–1998), including the Cultural Centre in Ytterjärna, which in 2001 was voted the second best-liked modern building in Sweden.

Beata Bergström, photographer, resided here.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Järna, Södertälje Municipality” as urban area in Södertälje Municipality, Sweden. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 1913, 1998, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Järna, Södertälje and Municipality can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as urban area in Södertälje Municipality, Sweden. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1456393. VIAF identifies the subject as 136193382. The Library of Congress control number is n93097220. Authority coordinates are 59.091, 17.559. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 1913, 1998 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Järna, Södertälje Municipality” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.