Vollsmose

The first part is probably vold (Old Norse vǫllr), an obsolete word meaning a grass-covered area or plain.

Another possibility is the identical word vold meaning rampart (from Low German wal and Latin vallum), but there are no traces of such a fortification in the area.

These maps wore often edited by foreign cartographers and have many erratic German-influenced spelling forms.

As the forms Vollsmose and Voldsmose would be pronounced in the same way in Danish, the name is easy to joke about or associate to violence.

Vollmose has had much media focus and political attention regarding crime, unemployment and immigration problems in recent years.

At Fyrreparken (one of the nine "parks" and "gardens" or divisions) there is an earlier peat bog, which has been dug out in such a way, that one can walk down the spiral along the walls of the hole to the bottom.

While the area's "parks" are made up of multi-storied apartment blocks of varying heights up to 13 stories, the three "gardens" are 1–2-storied rows of housing units.

The history of Vollsmose began in the 1960s and was originally a prestige project for the public service sector, which today is reflected in the high quality of the construction.

Vollsmose was pictured to the citizens of Odense by the prospect of good apartments, which low income families could afford.

In 2007 the suburb got its first candidate to national elections, when the former residents association chairperson and public figure from Bøgeparken, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, stood for the leftist Enhedslisten.

One part of the plan was that the municipality implement the Vollsmosesekretariat, the first group of employed people to oversee operations.

The health centre is run in cooperation with Professor Morten Sodemann's immigrant-medical clinic at Odense Universitetshospital.

All three media departments use residents as journalists, who voluntarily produce both articles for the homepage and the paper as well as for the net-TV.

The leader of the Medierhus was Benthe Vestergård, who was also the public relations officer for Vollsmose, but who has the job right now is unknown, as the next round of the Helhedsplan is just beginning (July 2012), with new staff and new plans, but which again this time will be called Vollsmosesekretariatet.