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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.

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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