In 1804, Adam Oehlenschläger wrote a poem in which he compares Langeland to a ‘caressing green of the great Danish rose hedge, in the water is fixed by a stone’.

Oehlenschläger wrote the poetry collection ‘Langelandsrejse’, which contains these stanzas. For him, leaving Langeland was a disaster...

It was also here on the island that Oehlenschläger was inspired to write the national anthem ‘Der er et yndigt land’.