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Nykøbing Castle ( Danish: Nykøbing Slot ), now demolished, was located on today's Slotsbryggen in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. Completed in 1594 in the Renaissance style, it replaced an earlier building from the 12th century. [1]
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Nykøbing Falster is the largest city on the islands of Lolland and Falster, and is often called "Nykøbing F." to distinguish it from at least two other cities in Denmark with the name of Nykøbing. Nykøbing Falster is the seat of state and regional authorities. Additionally, a city in Sweden is called Nyköping, which means exactly the same thing ("n...
Early history
Nykøbing Falster was founded around a 12th-century medieval castle. At the end of the 12th century, fortifications were set up on a peninsula on Guldborgsund for protection against the Wends, and these were later converted into Nykøbing Castle. The town of Nykøbing Falster grew up around these fortifications. After the Reformation, the castle was the residence of widowed Danish queens. As several queens of German descent resided here, many Germans came to the town. Situated on a headland, the...
Recent history
From 1970 to 2006, Nykøbing was the administrative seat of the former county of Storstrømas well as the Nykøbing Falster municipality. On 1 January 2007, the former Nykøbing Falster municipality merged with Nysted, Nørre Alslev, Sakskøbing, Stubbekøbing, and Sydfalster municipalities to form Guldborgsund municipality. This municipal reform, Kommunalreformen, created a municipality with an area of 907 square kilometres (350 sq mi) and a total population of 63,533 (2005) and will belong to the...
Nykøbing Falster is a harbor town which is located roughly in the middle of the western coast of the island of Falster. It is located where the Tingsted Stream (Danish: Tingsted Å) empties into the Guldborgsund strait which divides the islands of Falster and Lolland.
The city has a few noteworthy buildings, including a wooden house from 1580 and Czarens Hus ("The Tsar's House"), named in memory of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, who stayed there in 1716. The most noteworthy attraction is the city's old water tower, Nykøbing Vandtårn, which was built in 1909 and remains an icon of the city and the surrounding ar...
Nykøbing Falster has a railway station operated by Danish State Railways. It is the terminus for regular local passenger-train services from Copenhagen via Ringsted and Køge. International trains operating between Copenhagen and Hamburg called at the station until 2019, and are now re-routed via Flensburg. The Lollandsbanen also operates a rail ser...
Twin towns – sister cities
Nykøbing Falster is twinnedwith: 1. Lublin, Poland
Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557–1631 in Nykøbing Falster), Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to Frederick II of Denmark, mother of King Christian IV of DenmarkMunicipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMDaka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map"Nykjöbing" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). 1911.Nykøbing Falster es una ciudad del sur de Dinamarca situada en el occidente de la isla de Falster, junto al Guldborgsund, el estrecho que separa a ésta de Lolland. Nykøbing Falster es la mayor localidad de la isla, incluyendo poblaciones satélites.
Nykøbing Falster, city, western Falster island, Denmark, on Guldborg Sound. It was founded around a 12th-century castle where Christopher II died (1332) and where Christian V was married (1667), and it was chartered in 1539.
The Abbey Church (Danish: Klosterkirken), also known as Nykøbing Church, in Nykøbing on the Danish island of Falster is a church in the Gothic style from the 15th century. Its origins go back to 1419 when Eric of Pomerania, king of the Nordic Kalmar Union, established a Franciscan monastery.
