vordingborg and stege
Vordingborg Municipality possesses a wealth of villages, manors, churches and landscapes. In Vordingborg town, you can see the traces of a history stretching back to medieval times, when the royal city was the centre of power, and democracy and the state began to take shape. Historical monuments like the royal castle and the Goose Tower grace the town, and today the terrain of historical ruins function as a park. Vordingborg also offers a typical provincial pedestrian street, court- yard cafes, marinas, an army barracks and a theatre festival.
Due to the old manor estates surrounding the town, Vordingborg has not developed the typical housing areas around the town centre; instead, the villages further away have grown into displaced suburbs. Today, changes in the structure of agriculture have made service functions redundant and reduced the need for housing. The population of the municipality is expected to continue to decline, particularly among the younger age groups, while the size of the elderly population is growing. A major challenge thus lies ahead to transform the existing housing stock. As a Heritage Municipality, Vordingborg is working to stimulate new life in the old market towns and develop the rural areas as an attractive alternative to the capital. So far, new homes and a cultural arcade have been created in the southern part of town.
The region possesses few station towns, but has free buses in return. The Municipality has nearly 4,000 holiday homes, of which almost half are on Møn. Møn has gained a reputation as an attractive place where people take care of their local distinctiveness, qualities and unique values. These include beaches, beauti- ful landscapes with undulating fields, manor estates, well-preserved villages and the cliffs of Møns Klint, which have now acquired their own geo centre.
As a harbour town, Stege prospered from herring fishing from AD 1200-1400, and ex- perienced another heyday with grain exports from the late 1700s. Stege, the island’s local centre with nearly 4,000 inhabitants, is a beautiful and harmonious medieval town with well-preserved merchant’s houses, winding streets and a town gate built up around an elongated market square. New settlers came to Møn during the 1970s and breathed new life into the island with collectives, ecological movements and political activism. A number of small companies have become established in the region, and despite the declining popula- tion and the closure of the local sugar factory, hospital, police station, town hall and post office, Stege has acquired a reputation as a cultural centre and growth layer town.
Due to the old manor estates surrounding the town, Vordingborg has not developed the typical housing areas around the town centre; instead, the villages further away have grown into displaced suburbs. Today, changes in the structure of agriculture have made service functions redundant and reduced the need for housing. The population of the municipality is expected to continue to decline, particularly among the younger age groups, while the size of the elderly population is growing. A major challenge thus lies ahead to transform the existing housing stock. As a Heritage Municipality, Vordingborg is working to stimulate new life in the old market towns and develop the rural areas as an attractive alternative to the capital. So far, new homes and a cultural arcade have been created in the southern part of town.
The region possesses few station towns, but has free buses in return. The Municipality has nearly 4,000 holiday homes, of which almost half are on Møn. Møn has gained a reputation as an attractive place where people take care of their local distinctiveness, qualities and unique values. These include beaches, beauti- ful landscapes with undulating fields, manor estates, well-preserved villages and the cliffs of Møns Klint, which have now acquired their own geo centre.
As a harbour town, Stege prospered from herring fishing from AD 1200-1400, and ex- perienced another heyday with grain exports from the late 1700s. Stege, the island’s local centre with nearly 4,000 inhabitants, is a beautiful and harmonious medieval town with well-preserved merchant’s houses, winding streets and a town gate built up around an elongated market square. New settlers came to Møn during the 1970s and breathed new life into the island with collectives, ecological movements and political activism. A number of small companies have become established in the region, and despite the declining popula- tion and the closure of the local sugar factory, hospital, police station, town hall and post office, Stege has acquired a reputation as a cultural centre and growth layer town.
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