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'''Torsåker''' is a [[urban areas in Sweden|village]] in [[Hofors Municipality]], [[Gävleborg County]], [[Gästrikland]], [[Sweden]]. It has a population of 873 ([[2005]]).<ref name="scb">{{cite web |title=Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km<sup>2</sup> 2000 och 2005 |publisher=[[Statistics Sweden]] |url=http://www.scb.se/statistik/MI/MI0810/2005A01B/T%E4torternami0810tab1.xls |format=xls |language=Swedish |accessdate=2008-08-27}}</ref> The village also contains a parish for the [[Diocese of Härnösand]].
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|Regierungsbezirk = Freiburg
|Landkreis = Ortenaukreis
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|Vorwahl = 07803
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|Gemeindeschlüssel = 08 3 17 034
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|Bürgermeister = Michael Roschach
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'''Gengenbach''' is a town in the [[Ortenaukreis|district of Ortenau]], [[Baden-Württemberg]], [[Germany]] and a famous tourist destination on the western edge of the [[Black Forest]] with about 11,000 inhabitants.
Gengenbach is good known for its traditional [[Swabia]]n-Alemanic "fasnacht", ("Fasend"), a kind of historical influenced celebration of [[carnival]], where the traditions will been followed, to wearing costumes with carved wooden masks and to clapping with a "Ratsche" (a traditional-classic wooden "sound-producing"-toy) further has Gengenbach a beautiful traditional, by medieval-era, old-historical influenced old town ("Altstadt"). The traditional town Gengenbach is the proud owner of the world's biggest [[advent calendar]]. Its 24 windows of the [[18th century]] [[town hall]] are standing for the "doors" as a classical one. In Gengenbach is a division of the [[University of Applied Science]], [[Offenburg]].
Greater cities in the local area around Gengenbach are [[Freiburg]], [[Karlsruhe]], [[Baden-Baden]] and [[Strasbourg]]/[[France]].


==References==
The twin city of Gengenbach is [[Obernai]], [[Alsace]], [[France]].
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==History==
Gengenbach was founded in the [[13th century]] and became an [[Imperial Free City]] in 1360.


==External links==
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*[http://www.solace.miun.se/~blasta/herdamin/torsaker.pdf Torsåker vicars]
*{{de icon}} [http://www.deheim.de/gengenbach/ Gengenbach: information and pictures]

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Torsåker is a village in Hofors Municipality, Gävleborg County, Gästrikland, Sweden. It has a population of 873 (2005).[1] The village also contains a parish for the Diocese of Härnösand.

References

  1. ^ "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2000 och 2005" (xls) (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 2008-08-27.

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