Detail from the red, Half-timbered House - Møntergaarden - with Carvings. Odense, Denmark. Odense, the city of autohr H. C. Andersen, feature many of these half-timbered houses with great wood carvings. Moentergaarden was built i in 1646 by Falk Gøye This two-storey half-timbered building had its name from the street where a coin-factory (coin = in Danish: "mønt" or "moent" and "gård" or "gaard" = "estate", so...
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Detail from the red, Half-timbered House - Møntergaarden - with Carvings. Odense, Denmark. Odense, the city of autohr H. C. Andersen, feature many of these half-timbered houses with great wood carvings. Moentergaarden was built i in 1646 by Falk Gøye This two-storey half-timbered building had its name from the street where a coin-factory (coin = in Danish: "mønt" or "moent" and "gård" or "gaard" = "estate", so Møntergaarden means "Coin Estate" or "Coin Yard" had been in operation since 1420. It became a city residence for families of the landed nobility during the 18 th and 19th century, later on it was used as a grocery store. In 1930 it was bought by the city and as now used a the city Museum.
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