List of Polish lighthouses

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Models of some of the Polish Baltic Sea lighthouses in the miniature park

The list of Polish lighthouses on the Baltic Sea lists the lighthouses preserved along the Baltic Sea coast in Poland with characteristic data. The overview arranges the locations from west to east and ranges from Swinoujscie / Stettin on the German eastern border to Krynica Morska on the western border of the Kaliningrad Oblast . The small beacons that stand on almost every pier are not included here.

The Polish Baltic Sea coast is around 530 km long and the West Pomeranian Voivodeships ( Zachodniopomorskie ) and Pomeranian ( Pomorskie ) are located on it. All active lighthouses on the Polish coast (except for the Kołobrzeg lighthouse) are managed by three maritime authorities: in Szczecin, Słupsk and Gdynia. They are active in conservation, restoration and tourist use.

Description, origin

Most of the lighthouses were built in the 19th century as solid stone structures. In addition to the tower, which carried a beacon that could be seen from afar, the property often included a beacon keeper's house and farm buildings. The easy-to-manufacture bricks , which almost always remained unplastered , were used as building materials . For lighting purposes, petroleum or oil lamps were used, the permanent light of which was broken down into individual light / dark sequences by a rotating prism structure. The light duration and the different flashing frequencies from tower to tower marked each individual tower precisely, so that the boatmen and fishermen could determine their locations exactly using additional sea maps. The lighting was fundamentally switched to electrical energy in the 1920s .

In World War II, some of these landmarks have been destroyed or badly damaged. In the meantime, however, they have all been rebuilt and in most cases they are still fulfilling their maritime duties, although modern ships use the GPS system to orientate themselves more reliably and more precisely . In any case, the lighthouses provide additional security in the event that satellites fail or entire areas of land do not receive electricity. In addition, all of these buildings are evidence of history.

The following lighthouses (in Polish Latarnia morska ), in earlier times referred to by seafarers as "the index finger of God", can be hiked or explored and visited by bike:

list

- from west to east -

The place names in italics are the earlier German names.

Location coordinates	Construction year	Architect / builder	Tower height - height of fire in m	0Light code: (intermittent) on off ... in seconds (s)0	Range: in sm / ( km )	Description / usage and picture
Swinoujscie!Świnoujście Świnoujście lighthouse Świnoujście location53.916 14.284167	1857-1859	Severin!City planning officer Wilhelm Severin	67.7 - 64.78	Cycle 5 s : 4 1	20-25	300 steps lead to the platform of the round building clad with yellow bricks on the island of Wollin in the east port district (Chorzelin). Between 1958 and 1999 the tower was also used to transmit radio signals. It is the tallest brick lighthouse in Europe.
Wisełka Neuendorf Kikut lighthouse (lookout) location53.981444444444 14.580305555556	19th century		15th	Cycle: 10 s 5 5	30th	The small tower near Neuendorf on the island of Wollin is not open to the public. He stands on a terminal moraine height , whereby his fire height exceeds the fire carrier height several times. The round structure was converted into an automatically working beacon in 1962 and is monitored by the Stettin Maritime Office. A light beacon with an observation tower has been in place at this point since the 1820s.
Niechorze Horst lighthouse Niechorze location54.094722222222 15.064083333333	1863-1866		45 - 62.8	Cycle 10 s : 0.45 9.55	20th	The octagonal tower structure was badly damaged by artillery fire in World War II and rebuilt in 1948. The tower with the white shaft surfaces rests on a two-story building base; the property is surrounded by a brick wall. In 1999, the Szczecin Maritime Office had it completely renovated, and from 2008 to 2015 all other parts of the monument complex were restored.
Kołobrzeg Kołobrzeg lighthouse Kołobrzeg location54.1864 15.55424	1899 1909 1945 1953		25 - 36	Cycle 3 s : 1 2	16 (30)	The tower, visible from afar, destroyed in the Second World War, is a round building in the port entrance of the village, which was built on the foundation walls of an earlier fortress. The different years of construction indicate the repeatedly renewed tower next to the current location. In 1953 the current tower, which stands directly on the former fortress tower, was completed. There is a mineral museum in the tower shaft.
Gąski (Mielno) Funkenhagen location54.242861111111 15.87275	1876-1878		49.8 - 51.1	Cycle 15 s : 1.2 2.5 1.2 2.5 1.2 6.4	24 (44)	The tower stands on a hexagonal base. The beacon, originally powered by petroleum, was converted to electricity in 1927. A spiral staircase inside leads to the viewing platform.
Darłówko Darlowko location54.786833 17.734083	1885 1927 (extended) 1997 (restored)		21 - 19.7	Cycle: 15 s 2 3 2 8	15th	The tower, known as Darlowo maritime , consists of rectangular brick basic structures. A round light dome is placed on the tower shaft, which is transversely structured with ledges. The building was also the seat of the harbor master for many years. In the 2010s, the tower was converted into a hotel.
Jarosławiec Jershöft location54.541388888889 16.544722222222	1818 1830– 1996 (restored)		33 - 50	Cycle: 9 s 0.45 2.05 0.45 6.05	23 (43)	round four-story brick tower with lantern and gallery, connected to a two-story house for the beacon keeper. The first building was too low; it was soon covered by vegetation. A new tower building was built by 1830. Badly damaged in the Second World War, the nautical mark was quickly repaired and put into operation. In 1996 the lighthouse was opened to tourists.
Ustka Stolpmünde location54.589444444444 16.856944444444	1871 1892 Extension building		19.5 - 22.20	Cycle: 6 s 4 2	18 (33)	The first lighthouse was preceded by the erection of a mast at the pilot station with an oil lantern and Fresnel apparatus . The red light (height of fire about 12 m) could still be seen at a distance of about 6 nautical miles. In 1892 a new pilot station with an octagonal tower was completed, on the top of which the same technology was installed (left picture). Between 1904 and 1926 a complete technical renewal took place (red signal light exchanged for white and replacement of the oil firing with electric light) and a reconstruction in which, among other things, the conspicuous spiers were changed in favor of a round light dome. The tower and the two-story lighthouse keeper's house form a compact unit. In the 21st century, the building houses the station of a meteorological institute.
Czołpino , part of the municipality of Smołdzino Scholpin location54.72 17.243611111111	1872-1875	Sorrow!Engineer E. Kummer	25.2 - 75	Cycle 8 s : 2 1 2 3	22 (39)	The round tower that stands in the Słowiński National Park is clad with clinker bricks. The first source of light was an oil lamp with five concentric wicks. In 1926 new lighting and lens technology was installed, which was manufactured and has been preserved in France. In 1993/1995, the Maritime Office Gdynia and the Central Maritime Museum Gdansk renovated the lighthouse and made it accessible to the public. In 2000, the lighting system received an automatic warning system for 120,000 złoty : if something is wrong, the information is passed on to the lighthouse keeper's house a few kilometers away.
Osetnik (Stilo) Stylow Kathen lighthouse Stilo location54.786833 17.734083	1904-1906	Kurt!Walter Körte	33.4 - 75	Cycle 12 s : 0.1 2.9 0.1 2.9 0.1 5.9	22 (39)	Before the construction of this lighthouse, a 20 m high wooden beacon stood in the same place from 1860, 8 km east of Łeba . The tower can be visited from June to August. There is a nature trail there that explains the vegetation of the coastal forest.
Rozewie Rixhöft (Cape) location54.831666666667 18.338888888889	1821-1822 1910 1978		32.7 - 83.2	Cycle: 3 s 0.1 2.9	26th	In 1910 and 1978 the original lighthouse (left picture) was structurally and technically renewed. The core of the first building is still there, although it is no longer visible from the outside.
Jastarnia Jastarnia location54.700277777778 18.682777777778	1872 1938 1950		13.5 - 22	Cycle: 20 s 2 2 7 9	15th	To improve navigation around the Hel Peninsula, several lighthouses were built one after the other: the first in Jastarnia-Bor, operated between 1872 and 1936. The next one was built on Szwedów Mountain, but was only used from 1936 to 1938. A steel lattice mast with a height of 25 m served as the carrier of the signal system. Only after the end of the war, in 1950, was the lighthouse made entirely of metal using material from the fog horn system dismantled in Stilo.
Hel Peninsula location54.601666666667 18.815555555556	1826–1827 1942 (rebuilt)		41.5 - 40.8	Cycle 10 s : 5 5	18th	The tower that exists today is a new building from 1942. The first lighthouse was 42 m high, its beacon was maintained with rapeseed oil. When visibility was poor, additional guns were fired. In 1905 the tower received flagpoles for further signaling options. In 1926 it was converted to an Argand burner with four lenses. Finally the tower was plastered and painted white and red. Shortly after a further technical modernization, Polish troops destroyed the tower in September 1939 in order to make orientation difficult for the German artillery. As early as 1942, it was rebuilt according to old templates, about 10 m further south from the previous location. The lighthouse was extensively renovated in 2001, and traces of the previous foundation have now completely disappeared. A memorial plaque on the tower shaft, installed on the initiative of the Friends of Hel Association and inaugurated on July 1, 1999, commemorates the visit of Marshal Józef Piłsudski on July 1, 1928.
Góra Szwedów (dt .: Sweden Berg ) Location54.618333333333 18.8175	1936					Shut down in 1990
Sopot Sopot location54.445358333333 18.570452777778	1904		30 - 25	Cycle: 4 s 0.3 3.7	17th	The tower was initially just a decorative building of the booming health resort. It was not until 1954 that the Maritime Office had a beacon installed on the top of the tower, which was replaced in 1978 with a technically and structurally more modern one.
Gdansk : Nowy Port Neufahrwasser location54.399689 18.696278	18th century		31.3 - 27.3	Cycle: 5 s : 2 3	17th	From the middle of the 18th century there was a marine watch station at this point. At the end of the 19th century a lighthouse, an octagonal brick building with a wooden white lantern and gallery, was built here. A special feature is that a time ball was on top of a pole (and should be again), the ball falls down daily at 12, 2 and 6 p.m. - At the beginning of World War II , Polish troops damaged the tower. It was quickly repaired, the repaired areas in the masonry have been preserved. As a lighthouse, the plant went out of operation in 1984. At this point in time, the position indicator function was taken over by the new building of the harbor master at the north port (see next line). Listed as a historical monument since 1986, can be visited daily
Gdansk: Port Północny north port location54.399689 18.696278	1894		64.3 - 61	Cycle 9 s : 0.5 1.5 0.5 1.5 0.5 4.5	25th	The tower in modern architecture with an elevator inside is not open to the public as it serves the port authority.
Krynica Morska Kahlberg location54.386944444444 19.453333333333	1895, May 1, 1951	Stabbed!Edward Stach	53 - 27	Cycle: 12 s 2 2 2 6	18th	The current lighthouse is a new building inaugurated in 1951. The first tower (left picture) was destroyed at the end of the Second World War.

All lighthouses are also built en miniature as tourist attractions and are arranged along the promenade of Niechorze as along the coast.

The Polish Academy of Sciences operates a lighthouse each in research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic:
Hornsund and Arctowski lighthouse .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Polish Baltic coast , with some details of the corresponding locations , accessed on January 8, 2018.

↑ Lighthouse Swinoujscie on the Polish website. Association of Lighthouse Lovers (Stowarzyszenie Miłośników Latarń Morskich); (Polish only, scroll to “Radiolatarnia Morska Świnoujście”). Retrieved January 15, 2018.

↑ Apoloniusz Łysejko: Polskie latarnie morskie . ZET, Wrocław 1998, pp. 42-43. ISBN 83-86736-88-7 .

↑ Wiselka lighthouse , accessed on January 8, 2018.

↑ Lighthouse near Niechorze , accessed on January 8, 2018.

↑ Information from the Polish site on LT Latarnia Morska Niechorze .

↑ Brief information on the Mineral Museum in Kolberg (Polish), accessed on January 9, 2018.

^ The lighthouse of Gaski-Funkenhagen , accessed on January 9, 2018.

↑ Details on the LT in Ustka on the Polish website. Lighthouse Friends Association , accessed January 15, 2018.

↑ Meteorological station: can be seen on a board attached to the building.