Odense Palace

Odense Palace inside the town of Odense at the Danish island of Funen has its origins in a 15th-century monastery which exceeded to the Crown after the Reformation, and due to the fact then has served as an administrative building: in flip as a seigneurial house, an amt administrator's house, a governor's residence, and a municipal authorities constructing. The main white Baroque constructing with thirteen bays was designed by J.C. Krieger and completed in 1723.

The Knights of St John are first stated in Odense in 1280. They seem to have acquired a monastery around 1400; at some stage in the subsequent century it grew into their second biggest and maximum crucial residence in Denmark, after the mom house at Antvorskov. In 1536, after the Reformation, the monastery became the assets of the king and became given the call Odensegard. The monastery's assets was merged with that of Naesbyhoved Castle, under the call Odensegard Seigneury. He first holder of the property become Claus Daa. The final clergymen have been allowed to stay, but had to proportion the premises with him.