Rødby
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 Denmark
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| Region : | Sjælland | ||||
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Municipality (since 2007) : |
Lolland | ||||
| Coordinates : | 54 ° 41 ′ N , 11 ° 23 ′ E | ||||
| Founded: | around 1200 | ||||
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Population : (2020) |
1.993 | ||||
| Area : | 120.51 km² | ||||
| Population density : | 17 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Postal code : | 4970 | ||||
 Rødby - view of the
center with the only church in town |
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Rødby is a place on the Danish island of Lolland and part of the Lolland municipality in the Sjælland region . Until 2006 Rødby was the main town of Rødby Municipality , which belonged to the Storstrøms office .
The village includes the ferry port Rødbyhavn , located five kilometers to the south , which the ferries of Vogelfluglinie (operator Scandlines ) call at from Puttgarden in Germany on Fehmarn . With a resolution of February 2007, a fixed Fehmarnbelt crossing is to replace the ferry connection in the medium term . For this purpose, a state treaty was signed between Germany and Denmark in September 2008, and completion is not expected before 2024.
Surname
In 1231 the place was first referred to as Ruthby . The name is derived from the old Danish expression ruth for clearing , so it belongs to the group of clearing names from the medieval conquest. The place name ending -by , which means “city” in today's Danish , indicates a farm or a collection of farms.
history
The existence of a village on the (later diked ) Rødbyfjord is first documented around 1200. It developed into an important ferry point in the Middle Ages . In the 15th and 16th centuries, livestock was exported to the south on a large scale from here, and the Rødby farmers received extensive trade privileges. In the middle of the 17th century, the export of cattle lost its importance, and the fairway in Rødbyfjord silted up, so that shipping traffic moved to other ports in southern Lolland.
In 1682 Rødby was granted city rights ( købstad ), but in return lost the right to trade with foreign countries. In order to regain the privilege, in 1690 the Danish king changed the city's status back to a town at the request of the citizens . In 1699 the place became Købstad again , but kept the advantageous trade with Holstein.
The storm surge of 1872 hit south-eastern Lolland hard. The disaster accelerated earlier plans to drain the Rødbyfjord and build a new port. In 1873, the construction of a 2.8 to 4.8 m high dike began along the south coast of Lolland, with drainage canals and pumping stations being built. In 1930 the fjord, which was up to two meters below sea level, was finally diked and drained in 1966 so that the area could be used for agriculture.
After three years of construction, a new port was completed in 1912, which is located in the south of the city on the Baltic Sea. The opening of Rødbyhavn and its connection to the railway network via a line from Maribo resulted in modest economic and population growth. In its surroundings, a district developed that attracted some industrial companies. However, Rødby never became a pronounced industrial town; instead, administration and service determined the urban working life from 1960 onwards.
Rødby experienced its greatest boom with the opening of the ferry connection to Puttgarden in 1963. The number of inhabitants rose from 4,000 to 5,200 in 1965 within five years. Lolland-Falster Airport was opened in 1965 and was later expanded several times.
The region's population has been falling again since the 1970s. The Lalandia holiday center , which opened in 1988 and recorded around 720,000 overnight stays in 2006, was also unable to stop the decline in population. In addition, Rødby lost its role as the administrative center of the municipality after the municipal reform in 2007, in which the city was absorbed into the new large municipality of Lolland. All important administrative facilities are now in the town of Maribo, 12 km away .
Buildings and beach
In the city are granaries and merchants' courtyards, which testify to the history as a port city. The Willers Gård merchant's farm at Vestergade 1 dates from 1729 and has housed the tourist information office since the 1990s. A column in Nørregade shows the water level that was reached during the storm surge of 1872. During the storm surge, only Rødby Church, built around 1225, was high enough to provide refuge from the water. The Jacobsen family runs an amber museum with a workshop in the Ravgården farm at Østergade 5 .
Next to the port area in Rødbyhavn is a long bathing beach, which bears the Blue Flag due to the good water quality and its well-kept condition .
Immediately behind the dunes, a granite boulder ( Stormflodsstenen ) was set up to commemorate the storm surge of 1872. Furthermore, visitors can find out about land reclamation 10 km northeast of the harbor in Mindeparken Rødby Fjord .
Others
Helle Helles Roman Rødby-Puttgarden (2005, German 2010) is based in Rødby and Rødbyhavn .
Sons and daughters
- Lars Dalager (1722–1772), businessman
- Carl Dalager (1726–1799), merchant and Greenland pioneer
- Michael Damgaard (* 1990), handball player
See also
Web links
- Rødby Byhistorie City history at the Dansk Center for Byhistorie (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)
- ↑ Den Store Danske ( The Danish National Encyclopedia ) : Rødby , accessed on October 10, 2010 (Danish).
- ↑ a b c d e f Dansk Center for Byhistorie: Danmarks Købstæder: Rødby , accessed on October 10, 2010 (Danish).
- ↑ The Store Danske : Rødby Fjord , accessed on October 10, 2010 (Danish).
- ↑ Amatra Tekst: Lolland-Falster Airport ( Memento from August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 10, 2010 (Danish).
- ↑ Folkekirken : Rødby kirke ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 10, 2010 (Danish).
- ^ Søren Olsen: Rødby . In: Danmarks Købstæder . Politics Forlag A / S, Copenhagen 2000, ISBN 87-567-6203-8 , p. 290 (Danish).
- ↑ Beach quality: condition in 1993. This beach still carried the blue flag in 2014. Blå Flag Strande ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Lolland municipality, accessed on December 28, 2015.
