Torkilstrup
Torkilstrup, also Torkildstrup, is a little village some 7 kilometres southeast of Nørre Alslev on the Danish island of Falster. It is best known for Torkilstrup Church, one of the island's oldest churches, built before 1160.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 53 residents
- Description: village in Guldborgsund, Denmark
- Also known as: “Torkildstrup”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Torkilstrup Church and Torkilstrup Windmill.
Torkilstrup Church
Church
Photo: Hberlin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Torkilstrup Church is located in the village of Torkilstrup some 7 km southeast of Nørre Alslev, on the Danish island of Falster. It is built of hewn fieldstone rather than brick, indicating it is one of the oldest churches on the island from before 1160.
Torkilstrup Windmill
Photo: Hberlin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Torkilstrup Windmill is a post mill south of the village of Torkilstrup on the Danish island of Falster. Dating from 1743, it is one of the country's few post mills which still stand on their original site.
Crocodile Zoo
Zoo
Photo: Toxophilus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Crocodile Zoo is a zoo on the Danish island of Falster. It is located northeast of Eskilstrup, towards the northern centre of the island. Established in 2000, the zoo has the world's largest collection of crocodilians with almost all existing species.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gundslevmagle and Eskilstrup.
Eskilstrup
Village
Photo: Hubertus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eskilstrup is a town some 12 kilometres north of Nykøbing Falster on the Danish island of Falster. As of 2025, it had a population of 1,093. Eskilstrup is situated 3½ km southwest of Torkilstrup.
Nørre Alslev
Village
Photo: Hubertus45, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nørre Alslev is a town with a population of 2,363 on the northern end of the island of Falster in south Denmark. It belongs to Guldborgsund municipality in Region Sjælland. Nørre Alslev is situated 4½ km northwest of Torkilstrup.
Torkilstrup
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Guldborgsund Municipality, Region Zealand, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
54.8719° or 54° 52′ 19″ northLongitude
11.9336° or 11° 56′ 1″ eastPopulation
53Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)Open location code
9F6HVWCM+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 10892818248OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2611449Wikidata ID
Q7825885
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Turkish—“Torkilstrup” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Torkilstrup”
- Dutch: “Torkilstrup”
- Finnish: “Torkildstrup”
- Finnish: “Torkilstrup”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torkilstrup”
- Russian: “Торкильструп”
- Turkish: “Torkilstrup”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Torkilstrup”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.