Humans have been living in the area of Wyk since at least 14,000 years, as numerous mesolithic and neolithic tools and cremation urns from the iron age were found in the village of Boldixum.

By 1634, the settlement significantly grew as a result of a lot of people moving there after the Burchardi flood destroying many Halligen.

15 years later, 172 People already lived here, of whom many still witnessed the Erteilung der Fleckensgerechtigkeit (1706), which resulted in Wyk being legally recognized as a Flecken [de], which means a very small settlement.

The newly founded municipality included the settlements of Rebbelstieg, Badestraße, Königsgarten and Sandwall.

From 1842 to 1847 the Danish king Christian VIII chose Wyk as his summer resort,[4] which attracted numerous new tourists.

[citation needed] To ensure that Christian VIII would also visit Wyk in the following years, the city planned to gift him a property for a royal palace to be built.

Wind caused the fire to spread into the center of Wyk and because of low rainfall, little to no firefighting water was available.

In 1919 the Women's suffrage was introduced in Germany, also bringing the first Woman into Wyk's city council.

Mayor Heinrich Henke Wyker organized the first local council election in September 1946.

It was reported to be "difficult to accept the conflict as an inevitable expression of a free political life.” In 1947 Wyk applied for the honorary title Seeheilbad [de].

[citation needed] In 2002 Wyk belonged to the ten most important centers of tourism in Schleswig-Holstein: 46,368 guests, 325 (0.7%) of which from foreign abroad, booked 492,041 overnight stays.

Frisian customs and the history of Wyk are documented at the Dr. Carl Haeberlin Museum, whose entrance portal is made up of two whale jaw bones.

The church of St. Nicolas is a roman style building from the 13th century, situated in the Boldixum town district.

Wyk can moreover be reached by small planes via an airstrip, a daily flight schedule connects Föhr and Sylt during the summer season.

On a base azure, wavy, a shipwrecked 17th-century full-rigged ship or, without sails and with broken tops.