Odense Palace by Tony Via Flickr: Odense Slot in the city of Odense has its origins in a 15th-century monastery which passed to the Crown after the Reformation, and since then has served as an administrative building. Hans Christian Andersen's mother worked at the palace, and the boy was invited there, where according to his own account in his autobiography, he acted out some scenes by Ludvig Holberg and improvised a song.














