Husum
Husum is the capital of the Kreis (district) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Husum is the capital of the Kreis (district) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. 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 founded in 1987.
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Worth seeing in and around Husum
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Schifffahrtsmuseum Nordfriesland
The Schiffahrtsmuseum Nordfriesland is located at Zingel 15 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein. Across four levels, the museum showcases the relationships between the city harbor and the Nordfriesland district's involvement in shipbuilding, navigation, whaling, and coastal fishing.
1 km · museum in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Theodor-Storm-Haus
The Theodor-Storm-Haus in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, is a literature museum dedicated to the poet and writer Theodor Storm, who lived there from 1866 to 1880. On the ground floor of the house at Wasserreihe 31 are the former Landvogtei and Storm's study, while on the upper floor is the so-called Geschirrstube or china room, with old table porcelain.
1 km · literary museum in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The following three sites are run by the "Museumsverband Nordfriesland" ('Museum Association in North Frisia').
- 01Nordfriesland Museum
- 02Schloss vor Husum
- 03Ostenfelder Bauernhaus
Nordhusumer Straße 13 25813 Husum, info@museumsverbund-nordfriesland.de.
- 04Marienkirche
You're in luck, this church is made from yellow brick.
- 05Kirchlein am Meer
A brick-gothic church built in the 13th century.
- 06Dockkoog
Dockkoog is the at the coast of Wadden Sea National Park.
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Things to do
- 01Husum Bad
Flensburger Chaussee, 25813 Husum,.
- 02Freibad Schobüll
Over four million lilac crocuses (Crocus Napolitanus) are flowering in front of the Schloss.
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Where to eat
- 01Al Porto
Kleikuhle 7, 25813 Husum,.
- 02Ban Thai
Norderstraße 57, 25813 Husum, fax: +49 4841 2823, info@ban-thai.de.
- 03Dragseth's Gasthof
Ziegel 11, 25813 Husum, fax: +49 4841 775240, info@dragseths-gasthof.de.
- 04Fischhaus Loof
Kleikuhle 7, 25813 Husum,.
- 05Das Eucken
Süderstraße 2, 25813 Husum,.
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Getting to Husum
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 111 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 139 km · Billund (BLL), 142 km
- Stations
- Husum station, 700 m
- Hamburg → Husum121 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €16–22
- Bremen → Husum64 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €8–11
- Hannover → Husum39 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · €4.5–6
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Husum
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Husum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis runs in the Nahverkehrsverbund Schleswig-Holstein from Husum Railway Station starting at the Nordstrand ferry pier in the harbour of Strucklahnungshörn.
- Get inFrom here you can take the ferry to Pellworm.
- Get inThe port of Strucklahnungshörn on the northwestern shore of the island on the Wadden Sea stream Fuhle Schlot is primarily reserved for the island ferry to Pellworm that runs from here, and for seaside resort shipping to the Halligen Hooge and the municipality of Nordstrandischmoor.
- Get inThe commercial port of Holmer Siel can be reached via the Holmer ferry further north.
From Wikivoyage: Nordstrand, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Husum
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- Horstedtmunicipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany5.7 km
- Mildstedtmunicipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany2.9 km
- SimonsbergGerman municipality5.8 km
- Südermarschmunicipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany5 km