Following the E47 from Rødbyhavn on Lolland and then taking a side turning the visitor will come to Rødby, now 5 km/3 mi from the sea, which was a port before the new harbor in Rodbyhavn was opened in 1912. Here can be seen a warehouse beside which ships were once moored. The town was often flooded, however, and a comprehensive system of dikes
cut Rødby off from the sea. A Flood Column in Nørregade shows the high-water mark of the great flood of 1872, when large areas of Lolland and Falster were completely under water.