Odense

Odense lock

Odense [ˈoːðənsə] (German becomes outdated also: Ottensee) is a large city with 185.900 inhabitants on Fünen in Denmark. The third biggest Danish city is administrative seat of Fyns office, in addition it is bishop seat and university town. By the desert SE channelit is connected with the desert SE fjord. The city distributes itself over a surface of 304,3 km ². By it the river Odense Å runs. Twin cities of Odense are Schwerin (Northern Germany) and Funabashi (Japan).

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2 objects of interest
3 Economics
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history

the city one mentioned for the first time 988 as cult place Odins (therefore it also the city name). 1086 became here king Knut IV. the holy one murders. From 1654 to 1658 was Odense Danish capital.

Development of the number of inhabitants (1. January):

1980 - 168,528
1985 - 171,468
1990 - 176,133
1995 - 182,617
1999 - 183,584
2000 - 183,912
2003 - 184,308
2004 - 185,206
2005 - 185.871

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objects of interest

worth seeing are the railway museum, Hans's Christian the Andersen one museum, the concert hall and the zoo. The gothical church sank Knud (13. Jh.) with the famous altar of the Lübeckers Claus mountain (1520) ranks among thatmost important Danish Sakralbauten. In the eastern part of the old part of town several historical road courses remained well. West the business centre of the city with pedestrian precinct, Hans's Christian Andersens one house, is appropriate for the traffic flight corridor, which cuts among other things the historical market place, the Johanniskirche, thatAnd small side streets unite city hall, the lock, national archives for Fünen with well received Fachwerkhäusern.Im the south of the city are appropriate the open air museum for the Fynske Landsby.