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== History ==
[[File:Wd b130.JPG|thumb|left|Kampen in 1894 as seen from atop the [[Kampen Lighthouse]]]]
The first mention of Kampen occurs in a tax registry from 1543. The village is considered to have been founded quite late, possibly as a result of people moving there from an earlier settlement destroyed by a storm.<ref name="Landschaft">{{cite web |url=http://www.amtlandschaftsylt.de/kampen.html |title=Die Gemeinde Kampen (Sylt) (German) |publisher=Amt Landschaft Sylt |accessdate=8 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401041836/http://www.amtlandschaftsylt.de/kampen.html |archive-date=1 April 2015 |
In 1767, the local ''Landvogt'' and some inhabitants bought land to the north of the village and established the ''Kampener Vogelkoje'', a [[decoy]]. This was profitable over the next four decades and through 1921 yielded a total of 695,957 killed ducks.<ref name="Landschaft" />
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Kampen, a quiet hamlet situated in a [[Heath (habitat)|heath]], was discovered by tourists quite late. Until the beginning of the 20th century the place was merely regarded an insider's tip among travellers. Only in the 1920s did Kampen's reputation as a [[seaside resort]] begin to develop. An ordinance from 1912, which is still effective today, requires that all houses in the village be built in the traditional style, i.e. brick buildings with [[thatched roof]]s.
In July 1903, Kampen was linked by the ''Sylter Nordbahn'' to Westerland. In 1908, this was extended north to List. In 1908, the ''Nordseebad Kampen auf Sylt GmbH'' (founded in 1904) built a large two-storied octagonal wooden pavilion on the northern heath, around 400 metres from the ''Kurhaus'' (it was demolished in 1922). Even earlier, in 1906, a development plan had called for covering all of the northwestern heath with new construction.<ref name="Landschaft" /><ref name="kampen1">{{cite web |url=http://www.kampen.de/Natur-Tradition/Geschichte/Kampener-Geschichte |title=Kampener Geschichte (German) |publisher=Kampen municipality |accessdate=8 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414185759/http://www.kampen.de/Natur-Tradition/Geschichte/Kampener-Geschichte |archive-date=14 April 2015 |
After [[World War I]], the ''Verein Naturschutz Insel Sylt e. V.'' was founded. ''Haus Kliffende'' to the north of the village became a cultural and artists' meeting place in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1921, locals established the ''Verkehrsverein Kampen/Sylt e. V.'' to boost tourism.<ref name="Landschaft" />
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[[File:Kampen Haus Kliffende.jpg|thumb|''Haus Kliffende''.]]
Beginning in 1921, writer [[Thomas Mann]] was a guest of [[Siegfried Jacobsohn]] and later often stayed at ''Haus Kliffende'', north of the village. Many other intellectuals, musicians, writers and other artists flocked to the area. These included [[Max Frisch]], [[Emil Nolde]], [[Carl Zuckmayer]], [[Heinrich Vogeler]] and [[Lovis Corinth]].<ref name="Merian">{{cite book |last=Andersen |first=Christa Maria |title=Merian Sylt (German) |publisher=Travel House Media GmbH |year=2006 |isbn=978-3-8342-0021-1 |page=}}</ref>{{rp|45}} In 1923, there were 1,213 visitors to Kampen.<ref name="kampen1" />
[[Ferdinand Avenarius]] is considered as the first popularizer of Sylt. Today, a park is named after him.<ref name="kampen2">{{cite web |url=http://www.kampen.de/Natur-Tradition/Avenarius-Park |title=Avenarius-Park (German) |publisher=Kampen municipality |accessdate=8 April 2015 |
Kampen became a separate municipality on 21 March 1927, when the ''Norddörfer'' association was dissolved by the Prussian authorities, creating the ''Landgemeinde Kampen''.<ref name="Landschaft" />
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== Government ==
The current ''Bürgermeisterin'' (mayor) is Stefanie Böhm.<ref name="Landschaft2">{{cite web |url=http://www.amtlandschaftsylt.de/kampen/ansprechpartner.html |title=Ansprechpartner Gemeinde Kampen (Sylt) (German) |publisher=Amt Landschaft Sylt |accessdate=8 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401041841/http://www.amtlandschaftsylt.de/kampen/ansprechpartner.html |archive-date=1 April 2015 |
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