The house in Odense where Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2. April, 1805, is a corner house in Hans Jensensstræde, now the Andersen Museum.

Andersens childhood home 1807-1819 in Munkemøllestræde. It was shared by 3 families (12 persons). "The home where I spent my childhood was one single little room where almost all the space was taken up by the workshop, the bed and the settle on which I slept. The walls, however, were covered with pictures ... and over my father's bench there was a shelf containing books and songs."

The plaque on the side of the house dates from 1875 and reads: The dearest childhood memories of the writer Hans Christian Andersen are connected to this house.  Odense Council placed this tablet here on 2nd April 1875, the writer's 70th birthday. 
He died on the 4th of August that year.

Nyhavn 20: 1834-38
"I have a nice room facing the canal where the ships lie and the wind whistles in the sails ..." (Andersen in a letter to B.S. Ingemann 26.9.1834).

Nyhavn 18: 1871-73

Frequently stayed here between lodgings or during shorter stays in town.
 
"I am now in Copenhagen and residing for the moment at the Hotel d'Angleterre where I have a nice room on the ground floor looking out on the square; in the course of next week I hope to find private accommodation." (Andersen in a letter to B.S. Ingemann 25.11.1860)
15th October 1965: Is moved to two "small, neat rooms" (diary, same day) on the 2nd floor of the hotel, facing Kongens Nytorv, as he cannot stand the quietness at the back of the building. For the same reason, he later turns down an offer from the Henriques family of rooms in their home, as it turns out that these rooms are also in the back building. He wishes to have a daily view of the pulsating life of the town.

"Here I visited the writer Ingemann ... - His life out there seemed to me like a lovely fairy tale; his excellent, lovable wife treated me as if she were my older sister ... We sailed on the lake ... Ingemann related in so lively a manner; I loved these people, and our friendship has grown over the years; since then I have been there nearly every summer as a welcome guest and felt that there exist people in whose company one somehow becomes better ... "  (The True Story of My Life)

Sorø Church and Academy

One of three manor houses close to each other where Andersen was a frequent guest. The others were Holsteinborg and Basnæs.
 
In the 17th century this Renaissance house was in possession of the Daa family. In 1859 Andersen published his story "The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters", a tragic tale of how Valdemar Daa lost the property through his own foolishness . A small masterpiece. English version here at hca.gilead.org.il.
 
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Andersen stayed many times at Bregentved, both in summer and at Christmas.
 
It was here that Andersen started writing The Ugly Duckling, the opening scene being inspired by the park at Bregentved. The final scene, however, in which the swan comes into its own, is in the nearby park of Gisselfeld (see next house below).
 
The right wing of the house is as Andersen knew it, but not the left. That was built in 1890 on 18th century foundations.  More...

Gisselfeld and Bregentved lying close together, Andersen often divided his visits to the area between them. Regarding the first stay at Gisselfeld, Andersen tells Edvard Collin in a letter dated 2nd July 1842: "I have been given a nice, sunny room on the ground floor with a beautiful view, service fit for a king. In the evenings, when the butler [...] has lit my room he even says "most humbly good night".
 
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"Count Moltke of Glorup invited me to his beautiful country seat  ... ; I have enjoyed a hospitality, an attentiveness I can never return"  (Andersen in a letter to B.S. Ingemann 31.7.1839).
He returned no less that 24 times in the following 30 years. However, on one occasion in 1850:
Goes to Glorup Estate on 10th June, where Danish soldiers are billeted. ... Is irritated by both the countess and the guests at Glorup: "How ghastly it is to hear the empty-mindedness of the high-born, talking emphatically and off-handedly about everything. Ignorance, stupidity! [...] Oh swaggering foolishness, with crest" (the diary, 20th June).
 
More about Glorup and Andersen at Svindinge village web-site 

June 1850: Visits Hesselagergård Estate, where he feels ill at ease when he sees the portraits of the Duke of Augustenborg and the Prince of Nør "plastered on the walls of the lavatory" (the diary, 22nd June).
 
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Visits Holsteinborg in May 1856 for the first time. In a letter to B.S. Ingemann 23.5.1856:
"It is very beautiful here at Holsteinborg ... ; The beach comes up below the windows and the islands beyond are beautifully tree-covered ..."
In his diary: "The food was sumptuous, I was placed in a very elegant bedroom and a cabinet facing the great courtyard, which is rather similar to Kronborg [castle]".
 
In a letter to Mrs Ingemann 15.12.1865:
"... outside on the water, in their hundreds, wild swans that sing morning and evening"
 
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In July 1832 Andersen visits Lykkesholm - where he feels that the young Mrs Lindegaard makes almost too much fuss over him and is willing to fulfil his every wish.
In the summer 1835 Andersen writes to Edvard Collin of the young ladies who, all having read about Lara and Flaminia in The Improvisatore, "crowded around the poet".
In the 1830s it was the favourite manor house of the young Andersen, but the teasing by the youngest family members caused the sensitive poet to withdraw to other hospitable estates on Fyn. (Niels Peter Stilling in "Danmarks slotte og herregårde").
 
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