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HUSUM , a See also:

town in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein, in a fertile See also:district 2-i M. inland from the See also:North See also:Sea, on the canalized Husumer Au, which forms its See also:harbour and roadstead, gq m. N.W. from See also:Hamburg on a See also:branch See also:line from 'Phoning. Pop. (.goo) 8268. It has See also:steam communication with the North Frisian Islands (Nordstrand, See also:Fohr and See also:Sylt), and is a See also:port for the See also:cattle See also:trade with See also:England. Besides a ducal See also:palace and See also:park, it possesses an Evangelical See also:church and a gymnasium. Cattle markets are held weekly, and in them, as also in cereals, a lively export trade is done. There are also extensive See also:oyster See also:fisheries, the See also:property of the See also:state, the yield during the See also:season being very considerable. Husum is the birthplace of Johann Georg See also:Forchhammer (1794-1865), the mineralogist, See also:Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer (1801-1894), the archaeologist, and See also:Theodore See also:Storm (1817–1888), the poet, to the last of whom a See also:monument has been erected here. Husum is first mentioned in 1252, and its first church was built in 1431. Wisby rights were granted it in 1582, and in 1603 it received municipal privileges from the See also:duke of Holstein. It suffered greatly from inundations in 1634 and 1717.

See Christiansen, See also:

Die Geschichte Husums (Husum, 19o3);_ and Henningsen, See also:Des Stiftungsbuch der Stadt Husum (Husum, 1904).

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