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Tornesch
Sign in to saveTornesch (; ) is a town in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately southeast of Elmshorn, and northwest of Hamburg. Tornesch is also the home of the Klaus-Groth-Schule, named after the German poet Klaus Groth. It is also home to the Fritz-Reuter-Schule, named after German writer Fritz Reuter.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge Tornesch.png
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Tornesch COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Tornesch in PI.svg
- German location.state
- Schleswig-Holstein
- German location.district
- Pinneberg
- German location.elevation
- 12
- German location.area
- 20.61
- German location.postal_code
- 25436
- German location.area_code
- 04122, 04120
- German location.licence
- PI
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 01 0 56 048
- German location.divisions
- 3 Stadtteile
- German location.website
- www.tornesch.de
- German location.mayor
- Christopher Radon
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Tornesch (; ) is a town in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately southeast of Elmshorn, and northwest of Hamburg. Tornesch is also the home of the Klaus-Groth-Schule, named after the German poet Klaus Groth. It is also home to the Fritz-Reuter-Schule, named after German writer Fritz Reuter.
==History== Tornesch has a place in biochemical history from the wood saccharification process developed by Scholler, also known at the Scholler-Tornesch process. The first factory to use the process was built in Tornesch. This early work was part of the development of biofuel such as cellulosic ethanol.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tornesch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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