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LINDAU/BODENSEE
LIGHTHOUSE

One of the most scenic and photographed lighthouses in Germany
is the Lindau Lighthouse in Lake Constance.
The so-called New Lindau Lighthouse (or West Mole Lighthouse), Bavaria's only lighthouse, was built between 1853 and 1856, and is the southernmost lighthouse in all of Germany. The lighthouse and the port of Lindau were constructed by the Bavarian Railway Company, and the lighthouse continues to be operated by Deutsche Bahn's (German Rail's)
Lake Constance ferry subsidiary.
The lighthouse stands at about 108 feet tall and is located at the end of the western mole sheltering the town of Lindau's harbor. Uniquely, the New Lindau Lighthouse has a clock that is inset into its facade. After its lighting on October 4, 1856, the lighthouse was lit by an open oil fire. Over time, the light source was converted to kerosene and then to gas. In 1936, an electric light was installed, and the lighthouse was fully automated in the late 20th century. Today the light is triggered by radio signals emitted by approaching ships.
Besides the romantic New Lindau Lighthouse, an older lighthouse is also located here. The New Lighthouse replaced an older light tower that had been in use since its construction in 1230. The Mangturm, which still exists today, is a square, fortified tower with a tall pyramidal roof covered in colorful tiles. At 121 feet, this tower is actually taller than the New Lindau Lighthouse. The Mangturm is located on an island near the northeastern shore of Lake Constance. The tower functioned militarily
and defended the town of Lindau for several centuries.
According to legend, the tower also functioned as a lighthouse,
although historians have not yet figured out exactly how the lighting was done.
In addition to the lighthouses, Lindau offers much to see, such as the intricately decorated historic town hall and the Maximilianstrasse shopping area. Although the first written reference to the town dates from 882, there is archaeological evidence that a community already existed on this island site during the Roman Empire.

PELLWORM LIGHTHOUSE
NORTH SEA
PELLWORM ISLAND
anno 1907

BUSUM LIGHTHOUSE
BUSUM
NORTH SEA
anno 1913

AMRUM LIGHTHOUSE
AMRUM ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1873

HORNUM LIGHTHOUSE
SYLT ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1907

KAMPEN LIGHTHOUSE
SULT ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1855

When Sylt belonged to the Danish realm in 1853, king Frederick VII ordered the construction of a lighthouse on Sylt's highest elevation, the red cliff.
The tower was first lit in 1856. Its original petroleum lantern was at the time a technical revolution and was displayed at the Paris World Exhibition in 1855.
The tower was originally constructed from yellow Bornholm bricks
and was reinforced with iron rings in 1875.
Until 1953 the lighthouse used to be greyish-yellow, the colour of the whithered bricks. Only then it was painted with its characteristic black and white.

LIST OST LIGHTHOUSE
SULT ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1858

LIST WEST LIGHTHOUSE
SULT ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1858

ROTES KLIFF LIGHTHOUSE
SULT ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1913

HORNUM-ODDE
SULT ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno.....

ROTER SAND LIGHTHOUSE
NORTH SEA
offshore of the Weser River
anno 1885

ARNGAST LIGHTHOUSE
NORTH SEA
LOWER SAXONY
JADEBUSEN
anno 1910

CUXHAVEN LIGHTHOUSE
NORTH SEA
LOWER SAXONY
CUXHAVEN
anno 1805

HELGOLAND / DUNE /
LIGHTHOUSE
NORTH SEA
anno 1936

KIUGELBAKE LIGHTHOUSE
CUXHAVEN
NORTH SEA
anno 1940

Cuxhaven is home to an important fisherman's wharf and ship registration point for Hamburg as well as the Kiel Canal until 2008. Tourism is also of great importance. The city and its precursor Ritzebüttel belonged to Hamburg from the 13th century until 1937. The island of Neuwerk, a Hamburg dependency, is located just northwest of Cuxhaven in the North Sea. The city's symbol, known as the Kugelbake is a beacon once used as a lighthouse; the wooden landmark on the mouth of the Elbe marks the boundary between the river and the North Sea and also adorns the city's coat of arms

MAMMERT LIGHTHOUSE
LOVER SAXONY
MAMMERT ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1992

NORDERNEY LIGHTHOUSE
LOWER SAXONY
NORDERNEY ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1874

PILSUM LIGHTHOUSE
LOWER SAXONY
PILSUM
NORTH SEA
anno 1889

BORKUM GROBER LIGHT
LOVER SAXONY
BORKUM ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1879

Height of 197 feet (60 m) it is the twenty-fourth tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world, as well as the third tallest brick lighthouse in the world. The lighthouse is located at the west side of the Borkum island. It is the landfall light for the Ems estuary and the port of Emden,
serving also as a day mark.
This lighthouse also bares a directional continuous light at a height of 151 feet (46 m) to three different directions with the colors white, red and green.
The tower was built in the summer of 1879 in a record time of six months,
following a fire at the old lighthouse.

OLD BORKUM LIGHTHOUSE
LOVER SAXONY
BORKUM ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1817

Established in a tower that dates back to 1576,
this lighthouse served as a daybeacon until 1817 when a lantern was added.
It was heavily damaged by a fire in 1879 which led to the construction of Borkum Großer Light. After its restoration the old lighthouse became a weather and maritime traffic control station. It was transferred to a local historic association in 1982.

WESTTURM LIGHTHOUSE
LOVER SAXONY
WANGEROOGE ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1602

The West Tower was inaugurated after five years of construction 1602.
With the construction of the tower also the desire of Bremen merchants was met by a landmark for their moving into the Weser ships. As a result, they were dutiable, and the customs duties were long the most important government revenues of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
In the pitched roof of the tower is a lantern room was with 48 windows,
in which the beacon was first run on vegetable oil.

OLD WANGEROOGE LIGHTHOUSE
LOVER SAXONY
WANGEROOGE ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1856

NEW WANGEROOGE LIGHTHOUSE
LOVER SAXONY
WANGEROOGE ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1969

VOSLAPP LEADING LIGHTS
LOVER SAXONY
VOSLAPP
NORTH SEA
anno 1962

WITTENBERGEN LIGHTHOUSE
HAMBURG-RISSEN
WITTENBERGER
NORTH SEA
anno 1899

NEUWERK LIGHTHOUSE
HAMBURG
NEUWERK ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1814

The current tower dates to 1367, 1369, or 1377 (accounts vary), built after a fire destroyed its wooden predecessor. The tower is Hamburg's oldest existing building as well as the last remainder of Hamburg's fortifications.
In 1648 the tower received a beacon fire that was lit at night. The tower was converted into a lighthouse in 1814. Still, the island was the site of numerous shipwrecks.
During World War I, a shell destroyed the beacon and its signalling apparatus. On 3 September 1915 lightning struck the Zeppelin LZ 40 (L 10), causing it to crash into the North Sea near Neuwerk, with the loss of the entire 20-man crew.
Due to the Greater Hamburg Law Neuwerk became part of Prussia in 1937, and thus after World War II it became part to the new state of Lower Saxony.
In 1946 an 18 kW wind turbine, 15 metres (49 ft) in diameter, installed to economize on diesel fuel, helped power the lighthouse and residences on the island. This installation ran for around 20 years before a submarine cable to the mainland replaced it.

PINGELTURM LIGHTHOUSE
LOVER SAXONY
BREMERHAVEN
NORTH SEA
anno 1900

Bremerhaven is a seaport. As such, its external appearance is naturally characterized by lighthouses. The most northerly lighthouse is located to the south of the entrance to the Caesar`s Lock which leads to the Caesar`s Harbor and Connection Harbor. This is the beacon „Caesar`s Lock East light ”, in the vernacular called „Pingelturm”. Its architecture is very attractive and the beacon is a veritable unique specimen with its external fog bell. Incidentally, the bell still operates when it is foggy. Then it rings four times in rapid succession. The lighthouse is simply unmistakable in its entire appearance. The red brick building with a height of approximately 15 m, dating from the year 1900 and conceived by the harbour architect Rudloff, is easily recognizable from afar at the dyke.

BASTORF LIGHTHOUSE
MECKLENBURG - VORPOMMERN
BASTORF
BALTIC SEA
anno 1878

MIELSTACK LIGHTHOUSE
ELBE RIVER
anno 1907

DARSSER ORT / DARBER ORT
LIGHTHOUSE
Fischland-Darss-Zingst
located at the northernmost point of the peninsula
BALTIC SEA
anno 1848

DORNBUSCH / HIDDENSEE LIGHTHOUSE
HIDDENSEE ISLAND
BALTIC SEA
anno 1887

GELLEN LIGHTHOUSE
HIDDENSEE ISLAND
BALTIC SEA
anno 1905

CAPE ARKONA LIGHTHOUSE
RUGEN ISLAND
BALTIC SEA
anno 1826

FEHMARNBELF LIGHTSHIP
BALTIC SEA
anno 1965

(Danish: Femern Bælt, former spelling Femer Bælt)
is a strait connecting the Bay of Kiel and the Bay of Mecklenburg in the western part of the Baltic Sea between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland. Ferries operated by Scandlines connect Puttgarden and Rødby on the two islands.

HELGOLAND LIGHTHOUSE
HELGOLAND ISLAND
NORTH SEA
anno 1952

FLUGGE LIGHTHOUSE
FEHMARN ISLAND
BALTIC SEA
anno 1916

BREMENHAVEN LIGHTHOUSE
NORTH SEA
BREMENHAVEN
anno 1853

The Bremerhaven lighthouse, also known as the Simon Loschen tower or Loschen-lighthouse, is the rear light of a pair of Leading lights at the "New Harbour" of Bremerhaven, Germany. It is the oldest operative lighthouse on the mainland along Germany's North Sea shore and is counted among the city's landmarks.
From 1853 to 1855 the lighthouse was built in the style of northern German Brick Gothic at the northern side of the harbour's lock from 1852, using plans by architect Simon Loschen from Bremen. It went operational in 1856. Next to the lighthouse there is another brick house that used to serve as a quarters and service building for the lighthouse and lock keepers and was partially destroyed during World War II.

BRINKAMAHOF LIGHTHOUSE
BREMENHAVEN
NORTH SEA
anno 1912

TRAVEMUNDE LIGHTHOUSE
PORT OF LUBECK
BALTIC SEA
anno 1539

Travemünde is a borough of Lübeck, Germany, located at the mouth of the river Trave in Lübeck Bay. It began life as a fortress built by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, in the 12th century to guard the mouth of the Trave, and the Danes subsequently strengthened it. It became a town in 1317 and in 1329 passed into the possession of the free city of Lübeck, to which it has since belonged. Its fortifications were demolished in 1807.
Travemünde has been a seaside resort since 1802, and is Germany's largest ferry port on the Baltic Sea with connections to Sweden, Finland, Russia, Latvia and Estonia. The lighthouse is the oldest on the German Baltic coast, dating from 1539