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Husum, the gray city by the sea

20 April 2015 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General Reading Time: 6 minutes

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. read more…