H. C. andersen visited on several occasions the Güldencrone family at Vilhelmsborg south of Aarhus. On these occasions he also visited other people in the area, among others the Güldencrone baroness sister and her husband, Dean N.C. Weisner at Gosmer-Halling.

Hans Christian Andersen was in the period 1822-1826 at Slagelse Latin School in Bredgade under Rector Meisling. In the time during his stay he walks in the area and often strolled past Antvorskov Ruin. Previously, the ruin was both monastery and castle.

H.C. Andersen visited Gisselfeld for the first time in 1839 attending a party, where also the future King and Queen, Chr. VIII and Caroline Amalie participated. In 1842 Andersen visited Gisselfeld in the summer and found inspiration for “The Ugly Duckling”.

During a tour to cities on Funen in 1843, he visited Hindsgavl castle. H. C. Andersen writes in a letter to his friend Henriette Wulff, that he is very excited about the place, especially the view to Kolding Fjord.

H. C. Andersen decided in 1830 to pay a visit to a number of cities on Funen. He visited Svendborg, Vindeby and the island Tåsinge, where he also payed a visit to Valdemar Castle.

Bakkehuset today is a literary and cultural history museum, housed in the apartment where Hans Christian Andersen had visited plenty of times. During that time, Bakkehuset was owned by professor and theatre director Knud Lyne Rahbek and his wife, Kamma. The couple lived there from 1802 until they died in 1829 and 1830 respectively.

Bakkehuset is the oldest building of Frederiksberg from the 1620s, and the building’s name refers to its location on the Valby Bakke. It was a place for many philosophical and artistic current. The house has had many functions over time and has also been called Rahbekske Mindestuer. The name comes from the days when the house was an inn and Knud Lyne Rahbek was a regular guest.
His wife, Kamma Rahbek , managed a hair salon in Bakkehuset during the Danish Golden Age. Kamma was interested in the new art of Romanticism, while Knud harboured a passion for the ideals of the Enlightenment age. Hans Christian Andersen enjoyed his visits to Bakkehuset, and in his works he recounts on several occasions his relation to the place.
Bakkehuset was subsequently rented to summer visitors from Copenhagen after Rahbeks time and later purchased for other purposes. In the 19th century, the house’s western and northern four wings were taken down due to decay, while the buildings in which Rahbeks had lived in, remained standing.
The aforementioned Rahbekske Mindestuer opened in 1925, and Bakkehuset was redecorated in the 1950’s, based on information from Rahbeks period of time and it exists like that to this day.
The museum aims to give a vivid impression of the home where many of the golden age writers, artists and scientists came to visit and combined currents of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.

Hans Christian Andersen visited for the first time the castle in 1838, on invitation from Count Moltke. The two had become acquainted at the nearby manor Lykkeholm. Glorup Manor or Glorup Castle was a favourite residence of Hans Christian Andersen for many years, first with Gebhard Moltke-Hvidtfeldt in 1839-1851 and again from 1853-1869 with her son Adam Gottlob Moltke-Hvidtfeldt.
Hans Christian Andersen sought tranquillity and inspiration in Glorup, and happily visited before and after his travels abroad. During his visits he spent plenty of time in the garden and gained inspiration for fairytales, travel writing and poetry.

In Glorup, the two rooms where Hans Christian Andersen stayed can be found. The small desk along the wall is still there, and the rooms have a view of the manor’s green pastures and livestock. In total, he spent about one year of his life in Glorup from 1839 to 1869.
The original and mostly modest garden were of a slight bog-like character, that provided fertile soil for the very large burdock leaves, which in turn inspired the fairy tale “”The Happy Family””. The burdock plants can still be seen next to some of the boulder dikes that surround Glorup Castle park The park is open daily from sunrise to sunset.

In the time of 1839-69 Hans Christian Andersen published several fairy tales: The Elf of the Rose, The Garden of Eden, The Flying Trunk, The Storks, The Wicked Prince, Sandman, The Swineherd, The Buckwheat, The Metal Pig, The Bond of Friendship, A Rose from Homer’s Grave, The Angel, The Nightingale, The Sweethearts; or The Top and The Ball, The Ugly Duckling, The Fir Tree, The Snow Queen, Thirty-First Evening, The Elder-Tree Mother, The Elf Mound [ … ]

The Funen Village is faithful to Hans Christian Andersen’s time period.

The Funen Village is an outdoor museum that invites guests on a visit to the countryside and the time of Hans Christian Andersen. The open air museum shows a typical Funen village environment with 30 buildings from the time period 1600-1800. The buildings range between farms and houses, all of which have been brought there from around area Funen and the islands.

The museum has recreated an environment from the 1800s, to allow the experience of a village environment with half-timbered buildings, flower gardens, cultivated fields, fences and village roads. Cows and goats can be found grazing, while geese are strutting along. Between the buildings you can follow the cultivation of old times, watch old Danish breeds of farm animals, and you can see the gardens of plants for human consumption as well as examples of Funen utility and ornamental gardens.

Read more at the following website:
http://museum.odense.dk/museer/den-fynske-landsby/den-fynske-landsby

“Hans Christian Andersen’s House was acquired by Odense Municipality and restored from 1905-1908. The purchase was made in celebration of his 100 year birthday on the 2nd of April 1905.
During the restoration, it was crucial to restore the original appearance of the exterior and make the interiors suitable for a museum. The museum opened in 1908 and in 1928 Odense bought the small houses surrounding Andersen’s home, to expand the museum. On the 4th of June 1931 Odense celebrated the opening of the new museum.

The museum had been expanded with a spacious dome, today known as The Memorial Hall. In this hall eras of Andersen’s life are depicted with inspiration from his book The Fairy Tale of My Life. The house had under the restoration been brought back to its original, but the space was tight. By the measuring in 1908 the house was 44 square meters, divided on a living room, kitchen and a small aisle.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of his death in 1975, the museum was expanded with new buildings alongside the Memorial Hall. In 2002 the museum was refurbished and rebuilt. Much of the restoration was done with the intent of refreshing the visiting experience.

The museum has since its opening in 1908 had exhibitions telling about the poet’s life, from the early years as the poor son of a shoemaker, through the difficult times towards his goals in Copenhagen, the schooling, the debut as an author etc.”