HUSUM  , a

town in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, in a fertile district 2-i M. inland from the North Sea, on the canalized Husumer Au, which forms its harbour and roadstead, gq m . N.W. from Hamburg on a branch line from 'Phoning . Pop . (.goo) 8268 . It has steam communication with the North Frisian Islands (Nordstrand, Fohr and Sylt), and is a port for the cattle trade with England . Besides a ducal palace and park, it possesses an Evangelical 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 oyster fisheries, the property of the state, the yield during the season being very considerable . Husum is the birthplace of Johann Georg Forchhammer (1794-1865), the mineralogist, Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer (1801-1894), the archaeologist, and Theodore Storm (1817–1888), the poet, to the last of whom a 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 duke of Holstein . It suffered greatly from inundations in 1634 and 1717 .

See Christiansen,

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