Rudkøbing

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Rudkøbing is the capital of the island community Langeland (Denmark).

The village with 4547 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013) is the administrative seat of Langeland municipality in the region Syddanmark. Before the Danish administrative reform on 1 January 2007, he was the administrative seat of the municipality Rudkøbing in the former County of Funen. Rudkøbing is a port city with a fishery, a commercial and a marina and a ferry dock, run from the ferries to the neighboring island Strynø. The ferry to Marstal Ærø was set on January 21, 2013.

Demographics

Sons and daughters of the town

• Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851), Physicist
• Anders Sandoe Oersted (1778-1860), Prime Minister of Denmark from 1853 to 1854
• Mads Johansen Lange (1807-1856), international businessman (also known as the "King of Bali " )
• Anders Sandoe Oersted (1816-1872), botanist and zoologist
• Preben Lerdorff Rye (1917-1995), actor
• Bjørn Watt - Boolsen (1923-1998), actor
• Erik Larsen ( born 1944 ), politician ( Venstre )
• Nikolaj Coster -Waldau (born 1970 ), actor

Gallery

Windmill ( Bymølle )

Church of Rudkøbing

Langelandsbroen ( Langeland Bridge )