Oldsum
Sign in to saveOldsum (Fering: Olersem) is a municipality on the island of Föhr, in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Key facts
- German location.name
- Oldsum
- German location.image_photo
- Oldsum Foehr Windmuehle.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- The windmill is Oldsum's landmark
- German location.image_coa
- kein
- German location.image_plan
- Oldsum in NF.PNG
- German location.state
- Schleswig-Holstein
- German location.district
- Nordfriesland
- German location.Amt
- Föhr-Amrum
- German location.elevation
- 4
- German location.area
- 13.3
- German location.postal_code
- 25938
- German location.area_code
- 04683
- German location.licence
- NF
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 01 0 54 098
- German location.website
- www.oldsum-auf-foehr.de
- German location.mayor
- Hark Riewerts
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Oldsum (Fering: Olersem) is a municipality on the island of Föhr, in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
==Geography== A typical thatched house in Oldsum|thumb|left The municipality of Oldsum consists of the three hamlets of Oldsum, Klintum (Fering: Klantem) and Toftum (Fering: Taftem) which are spread over some two kilometres along a main road. The population number about 600. The landscape is marked by well-preserved thatched farmhouses. Oldsum's landmark is an ancient thatched windmill whose antecessor presumably dates back to the year 1700. Though burned down 200 years later, it was rebuilt and subsequently was in use until 1954. Since 1972 the mill is exclusively used as a dwelling house. Oldsum is situated approximately two kilometres from the western shore of the island, the northern coastline is a little closer. Oldsum adjoins Süderende to the south, Dunsum to the southwest and Alkersum and Midlum to the east.