Torsted


Torsted is a parish in eastern Jutland, Denmark.
Torsted is located on the southwestern outskirts of Horsens, 2 miles southwest of the city centre, and is part of the Horsens municipality. Its parish number is 7966. 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.
There is also a Torsted parish in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, in western Jutland.

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