General Information
| Completion: | 1879 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Lighthouse |
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| Material: |
Load-bearing masonry tower |
Location
| Location: |
Borkum, Leer (Kreis), Lower Saxony, Germany |
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| Coordinates: | 53° 35' 19.55" N 6° 39' 43.67" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | 60.3 m |
Materials
| tower |
brick
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
Borkum Great Light (from German:Borkum Großer Leuchtturm, "Borkum greater lighthouse"), also known as Borkum Neuer Light (Neuer Leuchtturm, "new lighthouse"), is an active lighthouse on the island of Borkum, Leer district, state of Lower Saxony, Germany. At a 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 bears 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.
The site is open, and the tower is open to the public daily April through October and on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday afternoons November through March.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Borkum Great Light" and modified on June 3, 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20022987 - Published on:
20/09/2006 - Last updated on:
16/05/2015
