NYKOBING FALSTER

city, seat of Storstrm amtskommune (county commune), western Falster Island, Denmark, on Guldborg Sound. It was founded around a 12th-century castle where Christopher II died (1332) and where Christian V was married (1667), and it was chartered in 1539. The city is now a commercial and industrial centre with sugar refineries, tobacco factories, shipbuilding yards, and fisheries. Medieval remains include ruins of the castle (destroyed 1767) and a 15th-century Gothic church that was part of a monastery until 1532. The house where Peter the Great lived in 1716 is now a local museum. Pop. (1990 est.) 18,937.