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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 9 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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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