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...The Carl Nielsen Childhood Home

In 1953 the house was threatened by demolition as it was in the way of a planned straightening of the Odense-Faaborg highway. The newspaper, Fyens Stiftstidende’s chief editor at that time, Knud Secher, placed himself at the head of a committee who wanted the house to be preserved and used as a museum. The plan was to tear down the house and reconstruct it stone by stone at an appropriate distance away from the new highway. This work started in the autumn of 1955. After the re-positioning of the highway, the location of the house was 20-22 metres to the west of its original position, and after the reconstruction, the rooms corresponded more to the original order that was in place when Carl Nielsen’s parents lived. Since 1956 the house has functioned as a museum.                    

...The word is that the Russian Czar Peter the Great

in October 1716 took a break from his journey at a house which was close to the Odense-Faaborg Highway at the dividing line between Nr. Lyndelse and Nr. Søby. Therefore, the house was named "Petersborg". In the 1850s the house which later would be Carl Nielsen's childhood home was built on the spot where "Petersborg" had stood.