Rødbyhavn

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Rødbyhavn is a Danish ferry harbor on the Fehmarn Belt and a village on the island of Lolland. The town was founded as a port of Rodby is part of Lolland municipality in Region Sjælland.

It is located three miles south of Rodby and about 20 kilometers south of the seat of the Municipality of Lolland in Maribo. With the 150 km distant Copenhagen Rødbyhavn on iron and highway is interconnected. The train station to the ferry terminal is called Rodby Færge station.

The main pillars of the economy form the ferry to Puttgarden on Fehmarn and the port and related activities. The construction of a fixed Fehmarn crossing is to replace the ferry to Germany. The manufacturing companies include a shipyard and a fish factory. Another major employer is the location on the Baltic Sea holiday center Lalandia in the west of Rødbyhavn. In Rødbygård of 1929 various administrative facilities are housed.

History

Until the construction of the port in 1908, the area along the dike consisted only of individual farms. In Syltholm on the outside of the dike, which was built after the flood of 1872, it was four years later in 1912 a fishing and commercial port to be opened. With the emergence of a new settlement in the place name of Syltholm in Rødbyhavn was changed ( " Rodby port "). 1916, a first shipyard was built, which went back in the mid- 1920s in bankruptcy, which meant that the port activities stagnated. 1920, the port was expanded to include a country built into the harbor.

1941 began preparations for the creation of larger port facilities that should provide the basis for a ferry service between Rødbyhavn and Puttgarden. In the postwar years, the work came to a halt and were not resumed until 1958. On 14 May 1963, the Vogelfluglinie was finally inaugurated. The ferry has created jobs and attracted many immigrants, which swelled the place to more than double.

Port

The port is owned Scandlines Danmark A / S, which is under the umbrella of, Scandlines GmbH and operates ferries in the Baltic Sea. Next to the Ferry Rodby Færgehavn to the site include the two westerly harbor Vestre Havn and Nordre Havn. The harbor, which is protected from the open sea by two moles, performs a 8.5 m deep and 1 km long fairway. Rødbyhavn does not own a marina; the ships is only a limited number of places in the Vestre and Nordre Havn available.