Olhoern lighthouse
| Olhoern lighthouse | ||
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| Place: | Wyk on Föhr | |
| Location: | Beach | |
| Geographical location: | 54 ° 40 '50.8 " N , 8 ° 33' 58.6" E | |
| Fire carrier height : | 8.60 | |
| Fire height : | 10 | |
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| Identifier : | Oc (4) WR.15s | |
| Scope knows: | 13 nm (24.1 km ) | |
| Scope green: | 10 nm (18.5 km ) | |
| Scope red: | 9 nm (16.7 km ) | |
| Optics: | Belt lens , low-voltage halogen lamp 24 V, 250 W. | |
| Operating mode: | electric | |
| Function: | Cross brand fire | |
| Construction time: | 1952 | |
| International ordinal number: | B 1704 | |
The Olhörn lighthouse , also known as Leuchtfeuer Olhörn or occasionally also lighthouse Olderhörn , is a small lighthouse on the German North Sea island of Föhr in Schleswig-Holstein .
Location and description
The tower is located in the southeast of the marshland island of Föhr in the district of the city of Wyk auf Föhr in the district of North Friesland . It stands on a ridge of a rather low height above the south beach of Wyk near the Kurmittelhaus .
Instead of a beacon built in 1892, today's tower was built in 1952. He has a height of about eight meters; the height of the fire is 10 meters above MThw . The tower has an almost square floor plan and consists of a solid wall, which is clad with a red-brown brick facade . The white lacquered metal lantern with the look rises above the accessible platform. The tower, which has been remote-controlled since 1980, has the function of a cross- brand fire and is used to navigate shipping in the Norderaue between the mainland port of Dagebüll and the islands of Föhr and Amrum . It is therefore a navigation mark and (due to its rather low height) is also a landmark on the island to a limited extent .
literature
- Friedrich-Karl Zemke: German lighthouses then and now , 2nd edition; Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH; Herford 1991; ISBN 3-7822-0503-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration / Tönning Waterways and Shipping Office
- ↑ Insel-Museum.de ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
