Aastrup, Falster
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Aastrup is a little village in eastern
Falster Falster () is an island in south-eastern Denmark with an area of and 43,398 inhabitants as of 1 January 2010.
,
Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
, located southwest of
Stubbekøbing Stubbekøbing () is a town with a population of 2,196 (1 January 2024) ...
.
Aastrup Church Aastrup Church (), located on the top of a steep hill in the village of Aastrup, southwest of Stubbekøbing on the Danish island of Falster, dates from c. 1200. Built in the Late Romanesque style, it has frescos from the 13th and 15th centurie ...
, built in the Romanesque style, has
fresco Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...
s from the 13th and 15th century.Kirsten Weber-Andersen, Otto Norn, Aage Roussell, Gertrud Købke Knudsen, "Tingsted Kirke"
''Danmarks kirker: Maribo amt, Volume 8'', 1951, Nationalmuseet, pages 1345–1358. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
The first documented reference to the village dates from 1419 when it was called ''Østrup''. From 1908 to 1965, the Stubbekøbing–Nykøbing railway (''Stubbekøbingbanen'') went through Aastrup, 4.2 km from Stubbekøbing, where there was a station with a ticket office and a siding."2 - Stationer: (Stubbekøbing) - Nykøbing F."
EVP Danmark. Retrieved 6 December 2012.


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Stations on the Stubbekøbing–Nykøbing Railway
with photographs of Aastrup, c. 1950 Villages in Guldborgsund Municipality Falster {{ZealandDK-stub