{{Infobox settlement | official_name = Aastrup | other_name = | native_name = | nickname = | settlement_type = Village | motto = | image_skyline = Nordenskirker Aastedfalst01.jpg | image_caption = Aastrup Church | image_flag = | image_seal = | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Denmark Falster | pushpin_label_position = bottom | pushpin_map_caption = Location on [[Falster]] | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[Denmark]] | subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Denmark|Region]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Region Zealand|Zealand (''Sjælland'')]] | subdivision_type2 = [[Municipalities of Denmark|Municipality]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Guldborgsund Municipality|Guldborgsund]] | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_title = | leader_name = | established_title = | established_date = | unit_pref = Imperial | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_land_km2 = | population_as_of = | population_footnotes = | population_note = | population_total = | population_density_km2 = | timezone1 = [[Central European Time|CET]] | utc_offset1 = +1 | timezone1_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | utc_offset1_DST = +2 | coordinates = {{coord|54|50|57|N|12|05|08|E|region:DK|display=inline}} | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_ft = | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Aastrup''' is a little village in eastern [[Falster]], [[Denmark]], located {{convert|6|km|abbr=on}} southwest of [[Stubbekøbing]].<ref name="GM">{{cite map|title= Maps|publisher=[[Google Maps]]}}</ref> [[Aastrup Church]], built in the [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] style, has [[fresco]]s from the 13th and 15th century.<ref name=natmus>[http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Maribo_1345-1358_02.pdf Kirsten Weber-Andersen, Otto Norn, Aage Roussell, Gertrud Købke Knudsen, "Tingsted Kirke"], ''Danmarks kirker: Maribo amt, Volume 8'', 1951, Nationalmuseet, pages 1345–1358. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 14 November 2012.</ref>

The first documented reference to the village dates from 1419 when it was called ''Østrup''.<ref>[http://historiskatlas.dk/%C3%85strup_(489) "Åstrup"], Historisk Atlas. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 6 December 2012.</ref>

From 1908 to 1965, the Stubbekøbing–Nykøbing railway (''Stubbekøbingbanen'') went through Aastrup, 4.2&nbsp;km from Stubbekøbing, where there was a station with a ticket office and a siding.<ref>[http://www.jernbanen.dk/pbaner.php?s=114 "Stubbekøbing - Nykøbing - Nysted Banen (Stubbekøbingbanen)"], Jernbanen.dk. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 6 December 2012.</ref><ref>[http://evp.dk/index.php?page=2---stationer-stubbekobing---nykobing-f "2 - Stationer: (Stubbekøbing) - Nykøbing F."], EVP Danmark. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 6 December 2012.</ref>

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==External links== *[http://evp.dk/index.php?page=2---stationer-stubbekobing---nykobing-f Stations on the Stubbekøbing–Nykøbing Railway] with photographs of Aastrup, c. 1950

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