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unusual facts about Abbey Church, Nykøbing Falster



Abbey Church, Nykøbing Falster

At its southern end there is a tombstone commemorating the statesman and bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811–1877) and his wife.

The artistic Mecklenburg Ancestral Table on which Antonius Clement started to work in 1622, completing it in 1627, shows 63 of Queen Sophie's ancestors from five generations with small paintings of each.

Guldborgsund Zoo

Located in Nykøbing on the Danish island of Falster, its gardens display thousands of flowers in the summer months.

Lollandsbanen

A/S Lollandsbanen is a Danish railway company operating the Nykøbing FNakskov line mostly on the island of Lolland.

Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony

When she became a widow, in 1647, she was granted Lolland-Falster as her fief and the position of royal sheriff of Nykøbing county with the two shires of Falster and the county of Ålholm.

Sir Henry Johnson, 1st Baronet

He died on 18 March 1835, at the age of eighty-seven, at Bath, where there is a masonic monument to him in the Abbey Church.


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