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Husum, the gray city by the sea

Monday, 20 April 2015 - 11:37 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Husum is the capital of the district of Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein. The town was the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Storm, who coined the epithet “the grey town by the sea”. It is also the home of the annual international piano festival Raritäten der Klaviermusik (Rarities of Piano Music) founded in 1986. Like most towns on the North Sea, Husum was ever strongly influenced by storm tides. In 1362 a disastrous storm tide, the Grote Mandrenke flooded the town and carved out the inland harbour. Before this date Husum was not situated directly on the coast. The people of the city took advantage of this opportunity and built a marketplace, which led to a great economic upturn.

Between 1372 and 1398 the population of Husum grew rapidly, and two villages, Oster-Husum (East-Husum) and Wester-Husum (West-Husum), were founded. The name Husum is first mentioned in 1409. It is shown on the Carta Marina in the Frisian form of Husem. Among the main sights are: Marienkirche (Saint Mary’s church, collapsed 1807, re-erected 1833), the Schloss vor Husum (Husum Castle, 1582) was a residence of the dukes of Holstein-Gottorp, the Old Town Hall (1601) and the New Town Hall (1988/1989). Being a tourist resort and the gate to the North Frisian Islands, Husum offers many cultural features.

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