Hesnæs
Hesnæs is a little fishing village located 12 kilometres southeast of Stubbekøbing on the Danish island of Falster. Its distance from Copenhagen is 125.4 km. It is best known for its thatched, straw-clad houses, not found elsewhere in Denmark.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Per Palmkvist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 34 residents
- Description: village in Guldborgsund Municipality, Denmark
- Also known as: “Hesnaes” and “Hesnæs Havn”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aastrup and Horbelev.
Aastrup
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Aastrup is a little village in eastern Falster, Denmark, located 6 km southwest of Stubbekøbing. Aastrup Church, built in the Romanesque style, has frescos from the 13th and 15th century. Aastrup is situated 4½ km northwest of Hesnæs.
Horbelev
Village
Photo: Beethoven9, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Horbelev is a village some 16 kilometres northeast of Nykøbing on the Danish island of Falster. Horbelev Church, one of Falster's oldest, dates from the beginning of the 13th century. In January 2025 Horbelev had a population of 536. Horbelev is situated 5 km west of Hesnæs.
Karleby
Hamlet
Photo: Bococo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karleby is a village in Guldborgsund Municipality in the Danish island Falster. Presently It has less than 200 inhabitants. Karleby is situated 8 km southwest of Hesnæs.
Hesnæs
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Guldborgsund Municipality, Region Zealand, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
54.82439° or 54° 49′ 28″ northLongitude
12.13792° or 12° 8′ 17″ eastPopulation
34Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
9F6JR4FQ+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
way 384027143OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2620391Wikidata ID
Q75442
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Turkish—“Hesnæs” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Hesnæs”
- Catalan: “Hesnæs”
- Corsican: “Hesnæs”
- Czech: “Hesnæs”
- Danish: “Hesnæs”
- Dutch: “Hesnæs”
- French: “Hesnæs”
- German: “Hesnæs”
- Indonesian: “Hesnæs”
- Italian: “Hesnæs”
- Low German: “Hesnæs”
- Persian: “هسنس”
- Portuguese: “Hesnæs”
- Romanian: “Hesnæs”
- Slovak: “Hesnæs”
- Spanish: “Hesnæs”
- Swedish: “Hesnæs”
- Tahitian: “Hesnæs”
- Turkish: “Hesnæs”
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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 “Hesnæs”. Photo: Per Palmkvist, CC BY-SA 4.0.