Torsted Parish, Horsens Municipality

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Torsted Parish
Torsted Sogn
Coordinates: 55°50′24″N9°48′29″E / 55.840°N 9.808°E / 55.840; 9.808 Coordinates: 55°50′24″N9°48′29″E / 55.840°N 9.808°E / 55.840; 9.808
Country Denmark
Region Central Denmark
Municipality Horsens Municipality
Diocese Aarhus
Population
 (2022)
  Total9,823 [1]
Parish number7966

Torsted Parish (Danish : Torsted Sogn) is a parish in the Diocese of Aarhus in Horsens Municipality, Denmark.

Torsted is located on the southwestern outskirts of Horsens, 2 miles southwest of the city centre. Its parish number is 7966. [2] In the Church of Denmark, it is a unit of Horsens provsti within the Diocese of Aarhus. Until the 1970 municipal reform, it was also a governmental unit as part of Hatting hundred. In 1924 it included settlements and estates named Torsted, Ørnstrup, Mosegaard and Thorstedhuse. [3]

There is also a Torsted parish in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, in western Jutland.

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References

  1. "Population 1. January by parish". statbank.dk . Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  2. Search, Autoriserede stednavne i Danmark, University of Copenhagen, (in Danish): list of parishes (sogn), map.
  3. "Thorsted Sogn", Jens Peter Trap, Kongeriget Danmark, Volume 5: Aarhus, Vejle, Ringkjøbing, Ribe og Færø Amter samt Supplement og Stedregister, 3rd ed. Copenhagen: Gad, 1904, OCLC   938384396, p. 350 (in Danish).