does anybody know in which way the string 'Krummh%C3%B6rn' is encoded?
Plain text is "Krummhörn".
I need to decode strings like this one in Python and tried urllib.unquote('Krummh%C3%B6rn')
The result: 'Krummh\xc3\xb6rn'
You're halfway there. Take that result and decode it as UTF-8.
Which encoding?