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Husum

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

Husum
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The place

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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What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Schifffahrtsmuseum 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
  2. 02
    Theodor-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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See

What Wikivoyage says to see

The following three sites are run by the "Museumsverband Nordfriesland" ('Museum Association in North Frisia').

  1. 01
    Nordfriesland Museum
  2. 02
    Schloss vor Husum
  3. 03
    Ostenfelder Bauernhaus

    Nordhusumer Straße 13 25813 Husum, info@museumsverbund-nordfriesland.de.

  4. 04
    Marienkirche

    You're in luck, this church is made from yellow brick.

  5. 05
    Kirchlein am Meer

    A brick-gothic church built in the 13th century.

  6. 06
    Dockkoog

    Dockkoog is the at the coast of Wadden Sea National Park.

From Wikivoyage: Husum, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Husum Bad

    Flensburger Chaussee, 25813 Husum,.

  2. 02
    Freibad Schobüll

    Over four million lilac crocuses (Crocus Napolitanus) are flowering in front of the Schloss.

From Wikivoyage: Husum, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Al Porto

    Kleikuhle 7, 25813 Husum,.

  2. 02
    Ban Thai

    Norderstraße 57, 25813 Husum, fax: +49 4841 2823, info@ban-thai.de.

  3. 03
    Dragseth's Gasthof

    Ziegel 11, 25813 Husum, fax: +49 4841 775240, info@dragseths-gasthof.de.

  4. 04
    Fischhaus Loof

    Kleikuhle 7, 25813 Husum,.

  5. 05
    Das Eucken

    Süderstraße 2, 25813 Husum,.

From Wikivoyage: Husum, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

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 → Husum
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €16–22
  • Bremen → Husum
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €8–11
  • Hannover → Husum
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · €4.5–6
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    290 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    298 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    815 km
  4. 04
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    886 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    903 km

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