Black Lighthouse Warfleth
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| Place: | Berne , district of Warfleth | |
| Location: | On the Warflether Sand | |
| Geographical location: | 53 ° 11 '11.8 " N , 8 ° 32' 5.7" E | |
| Fire carrier height : | 17.7 m | |
| Fire height : | 19.2 m | |
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| Identifier : | Oc.W.8s | |
| Optics: | Fresnel lens | |
| Function: | Cross mark light , later leading light | |
| Construction time: | 1897-1898 | |
| Operating time: | 1898-1985 | |
| International ordinal number: | B 1302.81 | |
The Black Lighthouse Warfleth is a former beacon on the Lower Weser . It stands on the Warflether Sand peninsula , named after Warfleth , a district of Berne in the Wesermarsch district . The old Lemwerder overhead light is also known as the “Black Lighthouse” .
Cross brand fire Farge
The 11.7 m high steel lattice tower was designed by Heinrich Tillmann and built in 1897 on the Bremen volcano . It was set up as part of the Weser correction in Farge , i.e. on the Bremen side of the Weser, and went into operation with a gas-powered lantern from Julius Pintsch on August 31, 1898 as a cross- branding fire . The optics consisted of a 6th order Fresnel lens .
In 1925 the tower was raised by six meters and the beacon switched to electrical operation. The height of the fire changed from 10.8 to 16.8 meters. When the Weser was rebuilt, the cross-branding fire was extinguished in 1954 and the Farge tower was moved to Warfleth on the Lower Saxony side of the Weser.
Beacon in Warfleth
As early as 1927, a black, iron lattice beacon with gallery and red lantern was erected near Warfleth, which designated the transition to the leading light line Lemwerder as a beacon . The leading light was destroyed in 1946, went back into operation in 1950 and was finally extinguished when the Warfleth leading light line went into operation.
The leading light line Warfleth was built in 1954. The 17.7 m high tower and the optics from Farge were adopted for the top light. The lower and sector fire stood on a 13.7 m high white tripod beacon made of hot-dip galvanized pipe and also received a 6th order Fresnel lens. The identifier was different at first and was uniformly switched to an interrupted fire (Oc.8s) in 1974.
When the new leading light line Juliusplate-Berne went into operation in 1983, the beacons on the Warflether Sand were extinguished. The lower fire was canceled in 1988. In 1988 the association "Schwarzer Leuchtturm Warfleth eV" was founded to prevent the planned demolition of the overhead fire. He was able to take over the tower from the Bremen Waterways and Shipping Authority and has been maintaining it ever since.
Web links
- Russ Rowlett: Lighthouses of Germany: Bremen ( English ) In: The Lighthouse Directory . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Retrieved February 5, 2019.
- Erich Hartmann: Black Lighthouse Warflether Sand. In: German beacons.
- Black Lighthouse Warfleth. Black Lighthouse Warfleth eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Warfleth beacons. In: News for Seafarers . Retrieved February 5, 2019 .