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The Eilschou Almshouses







A middle-class spinster







Hans Christian Andersen


The Eilschou Almshouses 1765-67
A half-timbered building, which originally consisted of two buildings containing six flats, built by the merchant Peter Eilschou and let out in Munkemøllestræde in Odense.
The buildings were soon transformed into an almshouse foundation, the so-called Eilschou Almshouses. Three middle-class widows and three middle-class spinsters from the clergy or merchant class from Odense and the neighbouring towns could live there without paying rent; a kind of privately financed social help. In fact, the Eilschou Almshouses in Munkemøllestræde remained an almshouse for needy, single women until 1920, when the Municipality of Odense took over the buildings and among other things used them for housing the homeless.
In 1929 and 1934, the buildings were pulled down by the Municipality of Odense and stored in order to make room for the new modern headquarters of the telephone company. It is presumed that the timber of one of the buildings was used to restore the childhood home of Hans Christian Andersen.
After almost 60 years, the Municipality of Odense handed over the many stored building parts from the other building to The Old Town.

The Eilschou Almshouses and Hans Christian Andersen
“Not far from my home the widow of a priest, Mrs. Bunkeflod, lived together with her husband’s sister. They allowed me to go and visit them when wanted, and as they took a liking to me I spent most of my days there. This was the first house belonging to the educated classes where I found a home”, Hans Christian Andersen writes in “The Fairy Tale of My Life”. The house in question was part of the Eilschou Almshouses. In addition to his childhood home, it was here Hans Christian Andersen spent his childhood and had his first meeting with poetry. The almshouse was just across from his home in Munkemøllestræde.








A middle-class widow










The Eilschou Almshouses

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