The Norwegian House in Hofmansgaves park

The Norwegian's house in park Hofmansgaves strains from 1814. The Norwegians built the house as thanks for a precious consignment of grain to the starving Norwegian people.

It was during the Napoleonic warsthat it succeeded Hofmannsgave to sail a cargo of grain to Norway. This precious help was not forgotten. After the war was over in 1814, the Norwegians came, in turn, sailing with timber and built the Norwegian House in Hofmansgave.

Here you will find The Norwegian House: Hoffmansgave, Hoffmansgavevej 23, 5450 Otterup.

Denmark's only Potato Museum

Near Odense Fjord there is the beautiful and more than 200 years old manor, called Hofmansgave.

In the beautiful park, which has a wonderful view over the fjord, there is rare trees and plants imported in the 1830's from around the world.

In the beautiful park you also find Denmark's Potato Museum. The potato has had its very own museum. It is probably the only potato museum in the world.

The museum opened in 2000. Here is the museum designed as a tribute to the genus Hofmann-Bang, who worked tirelessly farmers' welfare including by teaching them to growing and eating potatoes. It was the priests and masters men there were spreading the awareness of the potato on Fyn. Around the 1800's there was only one man in the entire northern part of Fyn, which bred potatoes - Hofmann-Bang on Hofmansgave.

The Potato Museum has put Otterup and Nordfyns Council on the world map.

Nordfyns Kommune

The three municipal councils in Søndersø, Otterup and Bogense chose to name the municipality Bogense Municipality.

So it was originally intended that the municipality should have continued with the name Bogense county, but a local referendum on 14 June 2006, the majority instead gave the name Nordfyns county, and this was approved of the Interior and Health department.

Nordfyns county was created by merging Bogense, Otterup and Søndersø counties in 2007.

The population is now around 30,000 inhabitants.