Rødbyhavn

6 km/4 mi northwest of Rødby lies Tirsted Church, a 13th C. Romanesque brick building. The upper and lower sections of the tower open up into two arches above the nave. Note the 15th C. frescoes in the choir portraying the Creation and other Bible scenes. In a niche stand two wooden figures of Mary and John the Baptist, from the workshop of Claus Berg.

There are opportunities for pleasant walks around the Maribo Lakes; on the north side lies the Classical Engestofte Manor House and to the south Søholt with a garden laid out in the French style. Particularly beautiful is Rogbolle Lake with old oak trees along its shores.

From Nysted a road to the west brings the visitor to the motorway which leads to Rodbyhavn. On the way it passes through Holeby, one of the smallest townships in Denmark, but so widely dispersed that it has an exceptionally long main street.

From Kong Svends Hoj drive north along the coast of Lolland to Kragenæs, from where ferries serve the islands of Fejø and Femø. There is good sailing to be had in the coastal waters.

Near Pederstrup the Reventlow Museum (founded 1938-40) is housed in a mansion built in 1820 for Count Christian Ditlev Reventlow. In the elegantly furnished rooms hang portraits of important personages who took part in the great Land Reform of 1788, when Count Reventlow made it his aim to improve the lot of the peasants.

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.