Gedser

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Gedser [ gɛsəʀ ] is a city with 786 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013) in Denmark on the island of Falster, south of Nykøbing, and is a major ferry port for traffic between Germany and Scandinavia. The city was originally part of the parish (Danish: Sogn ) Gedesby Sogn and belonged until 1970 to Harde Falsters Sønder Herred in Maribo Office, from 1970 to Sydfalster municipality in the former Storstrøms office, in the course of municipal reform on 1 January 2007, the Guldborgsund community has risen in the region of Sjælland. On October 1, 2010, the former church district Gedser Kirkedistrikt, lies in the Gedser, with the abolition of the Danish dioceses an independent Sogn Sogn Gedser.

Near the town is the Gedser Odde, the geographically southernmost tip of Denmark, and thus the whole of Scandinavia.

Ferries Scandlines driving every two hours to Rostock.

In addition to the city and ferry port in the south has Gedser still a marina ( Gedser Lystbådehavn ) west of the city.

History

From 1903 to 1995, the city was the starting point of the train ferry Gedser -Warnemünde, which was then replaced by the ferry in the port of Rostock. Between 1951 and 1963 there was a railway ferry Großenbrode Online Magazine as an interim solution. This line was necessary because Warnemünde was in 1945 in the Soviet zone or in the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany required its own ferry to Denmark. The line Gedser Großenbrode was replaced by the crow flies from Puttgarden to Rødbyhavn. From 1963 to 1990 there were also a car ferry Gedser -Travemünde, which went as a competitor to Vogelfluglinie; this was no longer profitable by improving the road network of bird flight line.

Traffic

The railway line to Nykøbing was replaced almost entirely since 1995 by a bus. One last perverted Regionalzugpaar every morning between Gedser and Copenhagen, from the summer of 2007 drove tentatively again two pairs of trains a day. For December 6, 2009 the passenger traffic on the Gedserbahn of Gedser to Nykøbing was adjusted. In summer 2011, the tracks were completely removed in the area of the port and the track.

Structures

1957 was taken on an existing tower of a wind engine which constructed by Johannes Juul Gedser wind turbine in operation. This plant was in operation until 1967 and was reactivated in 1979 to obtain data for the wind power program of NASA. Today the plant as a " archetype " of the "Danish wind turbine " applies and as a major breakthrough in the evolution of wind turbines nacelle and rotor are now exhibited in museums. In addition, their design has been included in Denmark's cultural canon 2006.