Kragenæs is a port town by Smålandsfarvandet on northern Lolland,
located 10 km east of Horslunde, 19 km northeast of Nakskov and 24
km northwest of Maribo. It belongs to Lolland Municipality and is
located in Region Zealand. Kragenæs has ferry routes to Fejø and
Femø.
Kragenæs belongs to Birket Parish. Birket Church is
located in the village Lindet 4 km southwest of Kragenæs.
Facilities
The town has a grocery store. Kragenæshus is a housing
offer for people with reduced physical ability due to congenital
brain damage.
Kragenæs is a tourist destination. South of the
ferry port there is a marina, which was expanded in 1993 and
operated together with a campsite. 1 km south of the city is the
monument Dodekalitten, which consists of 12 stone pillars with
built-in music.
On Ravnsby Bakke 4 km south of Kragenæs is the rampart
Ravnsborg, which gave its name to Ravnsborg Municipality, which
Kragenæs belonged to 1970-2006.
In 1899, Kragenæs is
described as follows: "Kragenæs with Harbor (built in 1879, deepened
in the last years to about 12 F.), from where Ferry to Fejø, Kro and
Købmandsforretn .;"
The railway
Kragenæs had a station on
the Nakskov-Kragenæs Railway (1915-67). As a terminus, Kragenæs had
a turntable and a single-track depot. Originally, the station had 4
tracks, but one of them was reduced to a plug track. The station
building has been preserved on Remisevej 4.
Kragenæs Kro
The current inn was built in the early 1980s after the old one
burned in a snowstorm in the winter of 1978-79, which on
Lolland-Falster is called "The Snow War". The fire had occurred in
the electrical installations and the Fire Brigade could not come
forward for snow. The inn's café The view out on the harbor was
built in 2007 after the old wooden house was destroyed by the storm
surge in November 2006.