Schleswig-Holstein
North Sea Coast
Kreis Nordfriesland

Husum

Husum is the principal city on the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein. The combination of city life, nature and typical North Frisian tradition makes Husum a very special travel destination on the North Sea.
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  • Type: Town with 23,300 residents
  • Description: town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  • Also known as: “Hüsem” and “Rödemis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Schloss vor Husum and Husum station.

Museum
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The Castle in front of Husum, so named because it was outside the city boundary when it was built, is situated in Husum, in the district of North Frisia in the state of .

Railway station
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is in Husum in the German state of . It was built in 1910 and is currently operated by Deutsche Bahn, which classifies it as a category 3 station.

Museum
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The in Husum, , , is a literature museum dedicated to the poet and writer Theodor Storm, who lived there from 1866 to 1880.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mildstedt and Dockkoog und Porrenkoog.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in , . is situated 4 km southeast of Husum.

Locality
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is a locality.

Husum

Latitude
54.4854° or 54° 29′ 8″ north
Longitude
9.0538° or 9° 3′ 14″ east
Population
23,300
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
QHU
United Nations Location Code
DE HUS
Open location code
9F6FF3P3+5G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240085119
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2897132
Wiki­data ID
Q21159
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Husum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Husum”
  • Arabic: “هوسوم”
  • Aragonese: “Husum”
  • Armenian: “Հուզում”
  • Arpitan: “Husum”
  • Asturian: “Husum”
  • Basque: “Husum”
  • Bavarian: “Husum”
  • Belarusian: “Гузум”
  • Belarusian: “Хузум”
  • Bosnian: “Husum”
  • Breton: “Husum”
  • Bulgarian: “Хузум”
  • Bulgarian: “Хузумбро”
  • Catalan: “Husum”
  • Cebuano: “Husum (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Husum”
  • Chechen: “Хузум”
  • Chinese: “胡苏姆”
  • Chinese: “胡蘇姆”
  • Corsican: “Husum”
  • Croatian: “Husum”
  • Czech: “Husum”
  • Danish: “Hüsem”
  • Danish: “Husum”
  • Dutch: “Husum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هوسوم”
  • Esperanto: “Husum”
  • Estonian: “Husum”
  • Finnish: “Husum”
  • French: “Husum”
  • Friulian: “Husum”
  • Galician: “Husum”
  • Georgian: “ჰუზუმი”
  • German: “Die graue Stadt am Meer”
  • German: “Hüsem”
  • German: “Husum”
  • German: “Kielsburg”
  • German: “Osterhusum”
  • Gilaki: “هۊسۊم”
  • Hebrew: “הוזום”
  • Hungarian: “Husum”
  • Icelandic: “Husum”
  • Ido: “Husum”
  • Indonesian: “Husum”
  • Interlingua: “Husum”
  • Interlingue: “Husum”
  • Irish: “Husum”
  • Italian: “Husum”
  • Japanese: “フーズム”
  • Japanese: “フースム”
  • Japanese: “フーズム”
  • Kazakh: “Хузум”
  • Kirghiz: “Хузум”
  • Kongo: “Husum”
  • Kurdish: “Husum”
  • Ladin: “Husum”
  • Ligurian: “Husum”
  • Limburgan: “Husum”
  • Lithuanian: “Husumas”
  • Lithuanian: “Huzumas”
  • Low German: “Husum”
  • Luxembourgish: “Husum”
  • Macedonian: “Хузум”
  • Malagasy: “Husum”
  • Malay: “Husum”
  • Minangkabau: “Husum”
  • Narom: “Husum”
  • Neapolitan: “Husum”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hüsem”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Husum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Husum”
  • Norwegian: “Husum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Husum”
  • Ossetian: “Хузум”
  • Persian: “هوزوم”
  • Persian: “هوسوم”
  • Picard: “Husum”
  • Piemontese: “Husum”
  • Polish: “Huesem”
  • Polish: “Hüsem”
  • Polish: “Husum”
  • Portuguese: “Husum”
  • Romanian: “Husum”
  • Romansh: “Husum”
  • Russian: “Гузум”
  • Russian: “Хузум”
  • Sardinian: “Husum”
  • Scots: “Husum”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Husum”
  • Serbian: “Husum”
  • Serbian: “Хусум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Husum”
  • Sicilian: “Husum”
  • Slovak: “Husum”
  • Slovenian: “Husum”
  • Spanish: “Husum”
  • Swahili: “Husum”
  • Swedish: “Husum, Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Swedish: “Husum”
  • Swiss German: “Husum”
  • Tatar: “Хузум”
  • Tatar: “Һузум”
  • Tumbuka: “Husum”
  • Turkish: “Hüsem”
  • Turkish: “Husum”
  • Ukrainian: “Гузум”
  • Uzbek: “Husum”
  • Uzbek: “Xuzum”
  • Uzbek: “Хузум”
  • Venetian: “Husum”
  • Vietnamese: “Husum”
  • Vlaams: “Husum”
  • Volapük: “Husum”
  • Walloon: “Husum”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Husum”
  • Welsh: “Husum”
  • Western Frisian: “Hüsem”
  • Wolof: “Husum”
  • Zulu: “Husum”

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