Husum (North Frisian Hüsem) is the district town of the district of North Friesland in Schleswig-Holstein. The city is known literarily as the gray city by the sea. The urban area of Husum extends on both sides of the Husumer Mühlenau. This crosses the two harbor basins within the urban area and flows into the Wadden Sea depth of the Hever. The city is also located at the transition from the Schleswig Geest to the Eiderstedter Marsch region, which begins to the southwest. In the adjoining outer area to the north, the Porrenkoog (originally: Nordhusumer Koog) and in 1848 the Dockkoog were diked to secure the Husum urban area. The Husumer Mühlenau flows past both bows to the south in the North Frisian Wadden Sea area. The northwestern district of Schobüll is in turn on the Geestrücken, which is advancing here to the northwest.
The core of the museum landscape in Husum is formed by the museums
jointly managed in the North Frisia Museum Association: the North
Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum in the Ludwig Nissen House, the
Ostenfeld farmhouse and the museum in the castle in front of Husum. The
offering is complemented by the Theodor Storm House in the Wasserzeile
and the North Frisia Shipping Museum. Smaller exhibitions can be found
in the Pole-Poppenspäler Museum and in the Husum Christmas House.
The North Sea Museum Husum documents finds from the mudflats,
provides information on coastal protection, everyday life on the
Halligen and the culture of life of the North Frisians. The visitor will
also find documentation about the lost settlement of Rungholt.
The Theodor Storm House presents the poet's rooms and his works, some of
which have been preserved in their original form, as an exhibition. It
was Theodor Storm's home between 1866 and 1880, where he wrote several
novellas.
The North Frisia Shipping Museum shows ships and models
from the Middle Ages to today and provides insights into life with and
on the sea. The main attraction is the wreck of a 17th century Frisian
cargo sailing ship. This was uncovered in the mudflats in front of the
municipality of Uelvesbüll in 1994, then preserved in a sugar solution
for two years and then put into the exhibition. The buoy ship Hildegard
from 1907 lies on a historic slipway at the inland port.
The Pole
Poppenspäler Museum focuses on puppet theater. It is based in the castle
in front of Husum and is run by the Pole-Poppenpäler-Förderkreis e. V.,
which also organizes the International Puppet Theater Festival
Pole-Poppenspäler-Tage Husum, which takes place every September.
The Husum Christmas House features a Christmas museum (Alix Paulsen
collection) and a historical shop from 1890 in a Wilhelminian-era
cultural monument.
Until 2013, the small museum showed pictures
by the painter Helene Dauter, who was born in Gilge, East Prussia in
1920 and died in Greater North Sea in 1996.
Architectural sights in Husum include the castle in front of Husum
with its gatehouse, the market square with St. Mary's Church, the
Asmussen-Woldsen monument and the old town hall, the inland harbor and
the Wasserzeile alley. This ensemble is complemented by the Husum water
tower, built in 1902.
The castle in front of Husum was built by
Duke Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf between 1577 and 1582. In the
17th century it served primarily as the widow's residence of the ducal
family. It was redesigned in 1750/51.
On the market square there
is the Asmussen-Woldsen monument designed by Adolf Brütt in the form of
a fountain, which is named after two of the city's benefactors, August
Friedrich Woldsen and his cousin Anna Catharina Asmussen. The monument
is popularly known as the “Tine fountain”. It is decorated with a bronze
sculpture depicting a young fisherman's wife with a headscarf, wooden
shoes and an oar in her right hand. The “Tine Fountain” is considered a
landmark of the city of Husum.
St. Mary's Church is located on
the eastern edge of the market square. It was completed in its current
form in 1833. The designs come from the architect and Danish state
architect Christian Frederik Hansen.
The inland port with the
adjacent ship bridge is a former shipyard port. It almost reaches the
market square. Today it is mainly developed for tourism. The western end
of the harbor is formed by the folding road and railway bridges that
cross here. The restaurant ship Nordertor[29], built in 1936, has been
located in the inland port since 1978 and is therefore the oldest
floating restaurant ship in Germany. There are also a number of leisure
boats there, including the traditional sailing ship Brittantje, built in
1914, a steel flat-bottomed vessel originally built in the Netherlands
for the IJsselmeer fishing. The former buoy layer Hildegard has been
located on the former slipway of the shipyard that was there until 1978
since 2002. The new town hall was built on the site of the shipyard
itself in 1988/1989. In 2010, the state of Schleswig-Holstein leased the
inland port from the Husumer Hafen e.V. interest group. V. (IGHH) to
make it the starting point for traditional and museum ships. In the
inland port of Husum there is a post with high water marks, which “only”
show how high the water would theoretically have been if there were no
lock and dike.
The Theodor-Storm-Haus is located parallel to
Hafenstrasse and in the extension of the ship bridge in the water row,
characterized by its proximity to the inland harbor and its small
fishing houses.
The Husum water tower was used for the central
water supply for many years. It was technically decommissioned in 1961,
but still serves as a viewing tower.
The largest park in the city is the castle park around the castle in front of Husum. The Husum Castle Park was included as a garden monument in the list of the Schleswig-Holstein monument book in 1994. Every spring, the Husum crocus blossom - the blossom of around five million crocuses - is an attraction known far beyond the city limits. The Duchess Garden has also been located on the castle island in front of the eastern and western facades of the castle since 2008.
The Husum Winter Marathon takes place every year in February or
March. Founded in 1972, it is one of the oldest marathon events in
Germany. Another athletics event takes place every year during the port
days in August: the port day run.
For equestrian fans, the white
horse tournament is held every year in the Schobüll district. It is
organized by the local riding and vaulting club every year on the
weekend after Ascension Day.
The most successful football club is
the Husum Sports Association, which was formed from Frisia Husum and the
Husum Football Club from 1918. She played in the fourth division league
in the early 2000s. She is currently playing in the fifth-class Oberliga
Schleswig-Holstein (season 2019/20).
The Husum bowlers were
represented in the first Bundesliga for some time.
With around
1,900 members, TSV Husum 1875 is the largest sports club in the city
and, in addition to recreational and health sports, offers
performance-oriented groups. There is also LAV Husum, which focuses on
endurance sports and athletics.
The Golf Club Husumer Bucht e.
With its 18-hole course, V. has one of the most difficult courses in
Germany.
Wheelchair sports (wheelchair dance, wheelchair table
tennis and wheelchair basketball) are available at the RSC (wheelchair
sports club) Husum.
In addition to other sports clubs, there is
also a diving club in Husum, the Tauch-Sport-Club Heuler Husum.
The most important annual folk festival is the Husum Harbor Days. As
part of the city festival, which has been organized by the Husum
Advertising Association since the early 1980s, various activities are
offered. These include the so-called harbor day run, the construction of
a Ferris wheel ride on the market square and a craft market in the
castle courtyard. Other popular activities include the annual tug of war
across the outer harbor, the so-called Open Ship based on the motto Mok
almost in Husum! and since 2013 a cabaret festival.
Every year at
Easter, many thousands of motorcyclists meet in Husum for a motorcycle
service to celebrate Easter together and start the new motorcycle
season.
In October, visitors are invited to the Husum Crab Days.
In addition, the Crocus Blossom Festival (for the Husum crocus blossoms
in March/April) with the presentation of the newly elected Crocus
Blossom Queen is also important. All of these events are organized by an
event company. At the North Frisian farmers' market, which is usually
held every two years, visitors are introduced to agricultural
production. The district farmers' association and the Husum advertising
association are cooperating as organizers. The Honky Tonk pub festival
takes place in Husum every year.
Other regular events also take
place, such as the Husum fish market, the harbor flea market, the Husum
Matjestage, rarities of piano music, song art in the castle in front of
Husum, the Husum Culture Night and the Husum Film Days. The European
Minority Film Festival takes place in Husum every two years. The Theodor
Schäfer vocational training center also hosts annual concerts from the
Schleswig-Holstein music festival JazzBaltica. The Pole-Poppenspäler
Days Husum are a festival of artists from the field of puppet theater;
they take place recurrently in late summer.
The Husumer Speicher is also a cultural center with regular and independently organized events in the city. Artists from Fettes Brot to John Abercrombie have performed here. The nationally known punk band Turbostaat originally comes from Husum and had their first rehearsal room in Speicher.
Since the 1930s, Husum has repeatedly been chosen as a location for
filming. Well-known productions included the 1934 version of Der
Schimmelreiter (directed by Hans Deppe and Curt Oertel), the production
Befreite Hands by Hans Schweikart from 1939 and the drama Nora by Harald
Braun from 1944.
In the 1950s, Emil and the Detectives by Robert
A. Stemmle as well as All Roads Lead Home again by Hans Deppe and I Will
Carry You by Veit Harlan were filmed in Husum. Productions since the
turn of the millennium have been Class Reunions - Murder Case Among
Friends by Diethard Küster from 2001, Murder by the Sea by Matti
Geschonneck (2004) and The Dead from the Deich, also by Matti
Geschonneck in 2005. Die Pferdeinsel by Jens Broecker also comes from
the same year . In 2009, Husum filmed 2 Just in Case – A Song for the
Murderer.
In addition, exterior shots were often shot in Husum
for various television series, for example for the ARD series Gegen den
Wind and Die Strandclique in the 1990s as well as the hospital series
Herzschlag - Das Ärzteteam Nord (1999 to 2003). In the 1980s, the
television series Helga and the Northern Lights with Helga Feddersen,
Gerda Gmelin and F. J. Fürbringer was filmed here. In 1985, part of the
television series The Riddle of the Sandbank was produced in the
buildings of what was then the Husum shipyard in the inner harbor. From
June 2011, the exterior shots were filmed in Husum for the ARD evening
crime series Heiter bis deadly: Nordisch herb with Loretta Stern and
Frank Vockroth in the leading roles.
There is a volunteer fire department in Husum with two locations. The volunteers are supported by three full-time equipment attendants.
The urban area of Husum extends on both sides of the Husumer
Mühlenau. It flows through the urban area from east to west and flows
into the Wadden Sea deep of the Hever. In the outer area to the north,
the Porrenkoog (originally: Nordhusumer Koog) was diked in 1495 and the
Dockkoog in 1848 to secure the Husum urban area. The Husumer Mühlenau
flows past both Kögen to the south in the North Frisian Wadden Sea area.
The Husumer Mühlenau is separated from the North Sea by a sea lock, so
that the tidal water can only flow to a limited extent into the city
area.
The city lies at the transition between the
Bredstedt-Husumer Geest natural areas and the Eiderstedter Marsch
landscape area that begins to the southwest. The Schobüll district to
the northwest is located on the geest ridge that advances to the
northwest.
The average annual sunshine duration is 2317.7 hours. The sunniest
month is June with 308.23 hours. January has the fewest hours of
sunshine with 78.51 hours.
The mean annual temperature is 9.5 °C.
The warmest month on average is July at 17.6 °C, the coldest is January
at 2.0 °C.
There were settlements from prehistory and early history on the area
of today's city. In various archaeological work - e.g. B. during the
draining of the Osthusum mill pond in 1866 and 1867, the construction of
the railway bridge over the harbor in 1885 and the new lock for shipping
in 1902 - corresponding finds from the Stone Age came to light.
While the neighboring town of Mildstedt was the center of this area in
the past, the importance of the place changed after the Second Marcellus
Flood: The storm surge known as the “Grote Mandränke” destroyed large
parts of the coast. The country was torn apart, islands and the town of
Rungholt sank, and entire areas were permanently submerged. As a result,
Husum became a port city from then on. The people of Husum, who now had
direct access to the sea, set up a market place. Goods could be
delivered directly by ship from distant places, and a thriving market
soon developed.
It was supposed to be the beginning of the rise of today's North
Frisian district town. As early as 1372, Husum's population had
increased significantly and by 1398 it had expanded so much that two
villages emerged, which were called Osterhusum and Westerhusum until
1431.
The beginning of the 15th century was characterized by the
increasing importance of the city's port. This resulted from a dispute
between Denmark and the Hanseatic League. At that time, when the
warships of the Hanseatic League repeatedly closed the Sound to all
merchant ships that did not come from Hanseatic cities, the Danish king
ordered that goods should be landed in Husum and from there transported
overland to Flensburg.
The place name Husum was first mentioned
in 1409. It is derived from the root word Hus, which means houses or
settlement, and the suffix -um from the Nordic “an der Au”.
In
1421 Husum received justice as a spot. Through the contract of St.
Luke's Day in 1448, the Mildstedt parish was separated. With the
inauguration of the first church in 1507, the separation was complete.
At that time, Husum grew to a good 3,000 inhabitants and developed into
an important port and market place in North Frisia.
From around
1440 there was a leprosy in Husum, which was known as St. Jürgen
Hospital and was originally located in the northeast of the city, and
from 1571 in Osterende. The successor to the leprosy was the “Gasthaus
zum Ritter St. Jürgen”, which is now a retirement home.
In 1465, Christian I gave Husum the privilege of employing a town
bailiff and holding its own court, as well as permission to fortify the
town with a wooden palisade. As early as 1472, the people of Husum
wanted to obtain city rights and took part in the unsuccessful uprising
against King Christian I, which was initiated by his brother, Count
Gerhard VII, Count of Oldenburg. King Christian had the place taken in
1472. Through the intercession of the bailiff von Ahlefeld and the
stabler Tede Feddersen, the destruction of the town was averted, but a
harsh pillaging, the withdrawal of all privileges, the execution of
around 70 citizens including the leaders and the expulsion of other
citizens from the land practically destroyed the town Blossom. A harsh
punitive tax was imposed, which was only abolished in 1878.
From
1512 to 1521, the Walsrode carver Hans Brüggemann had his workshop in
Husum and from here he made the Bordesholm Altar and the angel of the
lost tabernacle for the old Husum St. Mary's Church. Driven out by the
Reformation, which was becoming increasingly widespread in the north,
Brüggemann returned to his native town of Walsrode in 1523.
In
1522, when the first Schleswig-Holstein thaler, the Husum thaler, was
minted, the Reformation came to the city with the Protestant sermons of
the preacher Hermann Tast, who had been employed at St. Mary's Church
since 1514. She officially adopted the Lutheran faith in 1527. As one of
the oldest Latin schools, the Husum School of Scholars was founded in
the same year, today's Hermann Tast School.
Duke Adolf of
Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, who ruled the Gottorf parts of the Duchy of
Schleswig from 1544, had the castle in front of Husum built as a
residence on the west coast on the site of an abandoned monastery from
1577 onwards.
On April 20, 1603, the town was granted city rights
by Duke Johann Adolf.
The founding of the neighboring city of
Friedrichstadt in 1621 had a negative impact on Husum's economic
development. In 1634 the Burchardi flood destroyed the island of
Alt-Nordstrand, which had become rich through agriculture. Husum itself
was not hit very hard, but many farmers in the area who had regularly
come to the market lost their lives, and many survivors lost their
entire property. The economic boom was over for the time being.
In the Danish state as a whole
The theater is attached to the pente
de l'acropole, with an ending or a déclivité s'infléchit. At 200 meters
from the main road, the city dominates and is overlooking the plain,
with a south-south-east orientation. Le mur occidental du theater
(l'analemma) épouse le contour du mur d'enceinte. One at the forefront
of the point of tangence, a contrast to the wall and the edge of the
theater. The similitude d'appareil architectural permet d'estimer que le
theater et l'enceinte sont des constructions contemporaines.
Les
travaux entrepris en 1914, puis de 1921 à 1924 dégagent l'orchestra et
les entrées latérales (parodoi). The détérioration des gradins (κοῖλον /
koilon) is the telle qu'on ne peut reconstituer leur aspect à l'époque
hellénistique. The original orchestra has a circular space of 10.8
meters wide and open, measuring 25.65 meters above sea level and 24.17
meters above sea level.
In 1807, the old Gothic St. Mary's Church on the market, built in
the early 15th century, was demolished due to its dilapidation.
After many expansions, the old church gradually took on the size of
a cathedral church with an almost 100 m high tower. The demolition
was still considered one of the greatest losses in the architectural
history of Schleswig-Holstein in the 20th century. In 1833 the new
St. Mary's Church, built in the classicism style according to plans
by Christian Frederik Hansen, was inaugurated.
During the
German Revolution of 1848/49, as in many parts of Germany, there was
a similar action in Husum, Denmark, the “butter war”: the hawker H.
Petersen on Krämerstrasse had bought up all the butter available on
the market in order to send it to Helgoland . This made it scarce
and expensive. The dike workers on the new Dockkoogdeich became
angry and attacked the shop, damaging neighboring houses. Only a
hastily assembled vigilante group was able to put an end to the
activities of the more or less drunk workers and arrest the men. A
criminal trial was held against them in the town hall.
In
1854, Husum received a railway connection with the
Flensburg–Husum–Tönning railway line.
After the German-Danish War, Husum, along with the duchies of
Schleswig and Holstein, became part of the new Prussian province of
Schleswig-Holstein in 1867. The city began to grow again. This was
particularly evident in the connection in 1887 to the Marschbahn, whose
economic influence created, among other things, one of the largest
livestock markets in Northern Europe. For this purpose, the North
Station received a large livestock loading facility next to the railway
depot, where live cattle were loaded to the slaughterhouses in the south
of Schleswig-Holstein and as far as Hamburg. In 1929 Nordhusum and in
1938 Osterhusum and Rödemis were incorporated, all villages of the
Mildstedt parish.
In 1904, a new lock with an opening width of
12.0 m was built on the site of the first sea lock, which dates from
1858 and consisted of a flood gate and an ebb gate. It had two flood
gates and one ebb gate.
An early burst of innovation in the area
of renewable energies, which were not yet known as such, was the
construction of a tidal power plant known as a flood power plant by the
Hamburg engineer Emil Pein in 1912. A test facility for electricity
production was built in the disused fish breeding ponds in the
Porrenkoog.
Between 1935 and 1945, Husum was the location of the
Wehrmacht. The city had its own military registration office and an air
base. In addition to the Schaudahl air base in question, there was the
then unfinished Schwesing airfield in the area of the neighboring
community of Schwesing, which was intended to function as a mock
airfield until the end of the war. Mainly hunting units were stationed
at theSchauendahl Air Base. In addition, the Navy had had a barracks in
the city since 1940, today's air base barracks, which had functioned as
a branch of the Mürwik Naval War School in Flensburg since the end of
July 1943. This Husum war school (Marinekriegsschule Husum) trained
young officers for the naval artillery, fortress pioneers and the naval
intelligence service until the end of the war.
Between September
and December 1944, the Husum-Schwesing concentration camp existed about
five kilometers northeast of Husum (in the Schwesinger district of
Engelsburg); the prisoners were used to build the Frisian Wall.
At the end of the Second World War, Germany was gradually occupied. On
May 4, 1945, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg signed the partial surrender of
the Wehrmacht for northwest Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands on
behalf of the last Reich President Karl Dönitz, who had previously moved
to the Mürwik special area with the last Reich government. The ceasefire
came into force at eight o'clock on May 5th. On that same day, a British
advance party consisting of two soldiers with a radio car arrived in
Husum. The two soldiers then negotiated with the North Frisian Sea
Commander, Captain Frank Aschmann, the mayor and the district
administrator regarding the handover formalities. The following day, the
navy barracks on Flensburger Chaussee, today's air base barracks, were
handed over to the British for stationing their soldiers.
In 1960, a new lock and a new harbor pumping station were built about
300 m west of the 1904 lock. The new lock now had a passage width of
13.20 m. After the lock and pumping station were replaced in 1973, the
old harbor pumping station was dismantled in 1973 and the new sea lock
with a passage width of 22 m was built. The shipping channel in the
harbor was also moved to the south side. This time the lock received two
flood gates and an ebb gate. After the new lock was ready for operation,
the new harbor pumping station was installed in the enclosed lock area
from 1960.
A striking event for the city and its importance in
the area of animal trading was the closure of the livestock market in
1970. By then, the market had become one of the country's most important
transshipment points for live livestock. This importance was the result
of the excellent pasture fattening of the animals in the marshlands of
North Frisia. The administrative building of the then newly formed North
Frisia district was subsequently built on the vacant land on the
northern outskirts of the city. The remnant of the tradition as a market
location was the market hall in the southern part of the area, which
existed until a few years ago.
In 2010, remnants of the 1904 lock
were removed, increasing the nautical depth in the sea lock from 4.2 m
to 4.7 m.
As the district town, Husum is the economic center of North Frisia.
The city is a central center for the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein
with corresponding educational and administrative facilities. In the
historic city center around the market square with St. Mary's Church and
Großstrasse there are numerous companies in the trade and service sector
(including the regional headquarters of the Nord-Ostsee Sparkasse,
Commerzbank branch and fashion house CJ Schmidt).
One of the
largest weekly markets in Schleswig-Holstein is held on the market
square every Thursday.
The Husum Shopping Center will in future
be located at the former location of the Husum department store
(formerly Hertie GmbH, previously Karstadt). The local Hertie branch was
closed in 2009, as was the Quelle Technology Center. Temporary use
opportunities arose for both properties.
After the Husum
department store initially started its business operations at the Hertie
location, in the summer of 2016 it decided to re-plan the area
comprising several properties between Großstrasse, Schloßgang and
-strasse (including the city parking garage at Quickmarkt) in favor of
building an inner-city shopping center Prelios Immobilien Management has
been closed again.
Outside the city center area, other companies
in the trade and service sector have settled in the East industrial area
since the 1980s. Today there are branches of various do-it-yourself
stores (Hagebaumarkt and OBI), food retailers and other specialist
stores. There are also a large number of small and medium-sized
companies there, including those in the mechanical engineering sector.
Land trade
At the outer harbor, two agribusiness companies (ATR
Landhandel and Hauptgenossenschaft Nord) determine the commercial
economic structure with their external locations. The high silo towers
of the two companies characterize Husum's silhouette.
As a further mainstay, the wind power industry is of particular
importance for the city of Husum. The company Vestas has located its
central sales department for Central Europe in Husum. There is also a
research and development department located here.
This industry
is supplemented by the HUSUM Wind trade fair, which takes place every
two years. With almost 25,000 visitors (2008), it is known as the
world's largest trade fair for the wind energy industry.
At the
beginning of the 21st century, there were plans to develop the port into
a base for the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms. The
state government of Schleswig-Holstein withdrew support from the project
after a change of government in 2005 and redirected European funding.
According to the Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher, even the use of
the port as a service and maintenance location for offshore wind farms
no longer seems to play a priority role for the state government.
The shipping company North Frisian Offshore GmbH is based in Husum
and operates several large crew transfer vessels, including the Seewind
1, to transport workers to offshore wind farms.
Tourism is an important economic factor. At Dockkoog, Husum borders the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park. In 2009 the Wadden Sea was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The majority of restaurants and souvenir shops are located around the inland port. The inland port is increasingly being used by historic ships.
Rail transport
Husum train station is a hub for Schleswig-Holstein
railway traffic. The railway lines from Jübek and Bad St. Peter-Ording
meet the Marschbahn in or near the district town. In the station, the
lines provide rail operations coordinated in the Schleswig-Holstein
local transport association with an hourly clock at 30 minutes. The
current local transport service is carried out on all routes mentioned
by the DB Regio company. The hourly service from Husum in the direction
of Westerland in the morning and in the opposite direction in the late
afternoon is condensed to half-hourly service.
In long-distance
traffic, individual intercity trains from DB Fernverkehr also stop in
Husum. The Intercitys are connected from Hamburg Dammtor directly to
Westerland and are part of lines 26, 27 and 30.
The train station
is classified in price category 3 by DB Station&Service.
To the
east of the station area is the EWG railway workshop, historically known
as the Husum railway depot. This is a subsidiary of the transport
company Transdev GmbH. After the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn, also a subsidiary of
Transdev, passed on the rail transport services on the Marschbahn to the
DB Regio as part of a tender, the car transport trains from the provider
RDC Deutschland are primarily serviced here.
Bus transport
Local public transport within the city and to the neighboring
communities of Hattstedt and Mildstedt has been characterized by the
HusumBus brand from the Autokraft transport company since 2019. It runs
every half hour on weekdays (lines within the city) or hourly (lines to
Mildstedt and Hattstedt). All have a common clock node at minute 10
(urban lines in addition to minute 40) at the Husum ZOB stop. There is
also a connection here with the regional bus service, which is currently
(as of 2019) carried out by Autokraft and the local bus company Rohde
Verkehrsbetriebe. The routes advertised by the Nordfriesland district
and also newly assigned in summer 2019 run in the direction of
Bredstedt/Langenhorn (R120), Flensburg (SchnellBus 150), Nordstrand
(R140), Ostenfeld (R145) and Erfde (R149) (change towards Rendsburg at
the destination ).
Shipping traffic
Husum has a tidal port
where mainly agricultural goods are handled. The transshipment and
storage facilities of the two rural trading companies based here
dominate the silhouette of the city visible in the surrounding area. The
Husum harbor is also home to a small fleet of shrimp boats. The state
agency for coastal protection, national parks and marine protection uses
the port as a base for coastal protection. There is a marina at the
inner end of the outer harbor. Additional berths for pleasure boats can
be found in the inland harbor. This has been managed by the Husumer
Hafen Interest Group (IGHH) since the summer of 2010. The port is a
member of the North Sea SH port cooperation offshore ports. In 2020,
goods handled was 229,000 t, in the previous year 2019 it was 242,000 t.
In the west of the city is the lock between the North Sea and the outer
harbor with the adjacent inland harbor. The dimension of the lock
chamber is 56 m long, 24 m wide and 13 m high. The lock was built in
1975 and is operated by the State Office for Coastal Protection,
National Park and Marine Protection. The two low tide gates each weigh
45 t, while the high tide gates each weigh 65 t.
Road connections
Husum is located at the intersection of various federal highways. The
backbone is the federal highway 5, which runs east around the city in a
north-south direction. In this area, the Husum bypass road, which was
built at the end of the 1980s, has been developed as a grade-free
two-lane motorway. It is crossed by the federal highways B 200 and B
201, which end in the city center. These provide a connection to the
cities of Flensburg and Schleswig as well as to the A7. The B 5
continues in a southerly direction to Heide and flows directly into the
A 23. In a northerly direction it leads to the state border at Tønder
(Denmark).
Bicycle traffic
In 2010, the city of Husum decided
on a cycling strategy, according to which the infrastructure for cycling
is to be expanded and weak points in the cycle path network are to be
remedied.
Husum is connected to several long-distance tourist
cycle routes, including: to the North Sea Coast Cycle Path (which runs
around the North Sea as EuroVelo Route 12).
air traffic
The
nearest commercial airfield is Husum-Schwesing airfield. It is located
3.8 kilometers northeast of the North Frisian district town and emerged
from part of the Bundeswehr's Husum air base.
The regional newspaper for Husum and the southern area of the
Nordfriesland district is the Husumer Nachrichten. It is published by
the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag based in Flensburg. In
addition, the daily newspaper Flensborg Avis has its own local editorial
office in Husum. In addition, the Nordfriesland Palette was distributed
weekly in Husum. The advertising paper was created in Husum in 1973 and
belonged to the Flensburg-based Kopp & Thomas Verlag until it was
discontinued in 2023. In addition, the Schleswig-Holstein newspaper
publisher distributes its advertising paper WochenSchau (edition for
North Frisia) weekly in Husum.
Another media organ is the West
Coast Open Channel. Local broadcasting is carried out by the Offene
Kanal Schleswig-Holstein, a public institution. The radio station
broadcasts, among other things, from a studio on the premises of the
Hermann Tast School.
Husum is also the headquarters of the Husum
publishing group. In addition, the Friesenanzeiger is published by MSM
Werbeagentur & Verlag GmbH, which is based here.
The largest location of the district's own Nordfriesland Clinic is
located in Husum, with the clinic of the same name. This is located
directly adjacent to the northeast corner of the castle park on
Erichsenweg.
Since January 1, 2008, Husum has been the
headquarters of the State Office for Coastal Protection, National Park
and Marine Protection (LKN). In the same building, right next to the
train station, there is an office of the State Office for Agriculture,
Environment and Rural Areas (LLUR).
Husum is the seat of the
district administration of the Nordfriesland district, there is a
district court as well as an external chamber of the Flensburg Labor
Court. Until 2017, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) operated an
interception device for message traffic under the code name Federal
Office for Telecommunications Statistics at the town exit in the
direction of Schobüll.
The city has long been the location of
numerous military installations and units. Today there are two barracks
here: the air base barracks on Flensburger Chaussee (seat of the site's
oldest) and the Julius Leber barracks on Matthias-Claudius-Straße. In
addition, there is the Bundeswehr service center on Industriestrasse as
a military property.
Husum is home to three libraries. The Husum
West Coast Central Library is now located together with the North
Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum in the Ludwig-Nissen-Haus and also
houses the city library. There is also the Dansk Bibliotek Husum, a
branch of the Danish Central Library in Flensburg. It is located in the
Danish cultural center Husumhus on Neustadt, which opened in 1975.
In addition to two general secondary schools (Hermann-Tast-Schule and
Theodor-Storm-Schule), there is a vocational secondary school in Husum,
which is part of the vocational schools of the Nordfriesland district.
The general university entrance qualification can be acquired at all
three schools. There are also two community schools in Husum: the
Husum-Nord Community School and the Ferdinand Tönnies School. The
general school offering is supplemented by four primary schools.
Special schools in Husum are:
the Pestalozzi School (for people with
learning disabilities)
the Rungholt School (focus on mental
development)
Vocational students are taught at the Nordfriesland
district vocational school in Husum.
Other German-speaking
educational institutions include the Husum Adult Education Center and
the Education Center for Tourism and Gastronomy (BTG). The latter is a
facility of the Schleswig-Holstein Business Academy.
There is
also the Husum Danske Skole, which is run by the Danish School
Association for Southern Schleswig. It is a ten-grade community school
with Danish as the language of instruction.
The Theodor Schäfer
Vocational Training Center (TSBW) is particularly important. It is a
vocational training center for disabled trainees from the
Diakonie-Hilfswerk Schleswig-Holstein.
Husum is also the seat of
the Nordfriesland district music school, which is located in the castle
in front of Husum.
Nature conservation associations
Husum is a central location for
the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park. The National Park House
at the inland harbor houses both the Wadden Sea Conservation Station's
office since 2009 and the WWF's Wadden Sea Project Office. In addition,
the BUND (North Friesland district group and Husum local group) has its
offices in the Husum National Park House.
Music clubs and choirs
In Husum there are music clubs from music schools to brass bands. The
largest music club is the Rödemis Marching Band & Youth Wind Orchestra.
One of Husum's best-known choirs is the concert choir Theodor Storms
Chor. The singing club with the full name Theodor Storms Choir from 1843
e. V. is based in Husum. The Husum singing societies also include the
gospel choir Husum Gospel Singers e. V. Other choirs include: The Husum
city choir (oratorio choir and church choir at St. Marien), the Husum
shanty choir, the mixed choir Husum and the vocal ensemble Kleiner Chor
Husum.
sports clubs
There is a wide range of sports clubs in
Husum. The largest sports club is TSV Husum. You can read more about
this in the sports section above.
Other clubs
The Theodor
Storm Society has its headquarters in the Theodor Storm House in the
Wasserzeile. The Nautical Association of North Frisia e. V. is based in
Husum. The purpose of the association is, among other things, the
promotion of all matters in the general interest of merchant shipping,
fishing, ports and maritime affairs.
The vast majority of Husum residents belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany. There are also congregations of the Catholic Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Danish Church in South Schleswig and Protestant free churches such as the Free Christian Community of Husum and the congregation of the Coastal Church of the Federation of Free Church Pentecostal Congregations. There is also a New Apostolic Church in Husum, which belongs to the Flensburg church district.