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

Subsequently, a bell was installed atop Oevenum's school house to warn the people in case of fire.

At the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 an oak tree was planted in Oevenum to celebrate the subsequent peace.

In a former barn, a homeland museum has been established which documents life in general and the agricultural development on Föhr.

Since the communal elections of 2008, the Oevenumuer Wählergemeinschaft holds eight seats out of nine in the municipality council.