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Oevenum (Fering: Ööwenem, ) is a municipality on the island of Föhr, in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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German location.name
OevenumÖöwenem / Øvenum
German location.image_photo
Pincerno - Oevenum 1.JPG
German location.image_caption
A street in Oevenum
German location.image_coa
kein
German location.image_plan
Oevenum in NF.PNG
German location.state
Schleswig-Holstein
German location.district
Nordfriesland
German location.Amt
Föhr-Amrum
German location.elevation
2
German location.area
10.87
German location.postal_code
25938
German location.area_code
04681
German location.licence
NF
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
01 0 54 094
German location.website
www.oevenum.de
German location.mayor
Gisela Riemann

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Population
462
Area
10.87
Elevation
2
Official website
www.oevenum.de
Image
Pincerno - Oevenum 1.JPG
Dialing code
04681
Licence plate code
NF
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Oevenum
postal code
25938
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Oevenum (Fering: Ööwenem, ) is a municipality on the island of Föhr, in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

==History== In 1796 23 houses in the neighbouring village of Nieblum were destroyed by a fire. Subsequently, a bell was installed atop Oevenum's school house to warn the people in case of fire. The bell was moreover rung in the morning and at noon and was also used as a means of alarm during storm surges. In 1882 Germany's first junior firefighters were recruited in Oevenum. Thus Oevenum's Junior Fire Service is presumably also the oldest of its kind in Europe.

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