After a one-week break, my pick for Lighthouse of the Week this week is inspired by the World Cup winner, Germany. Germany may not have a lot of coastline, but it has quite a few lighthouses on that short length of coastline. And it was a very quick pick - I went with the Pilsum Lighthouse, which is striped in Deutschland's colors.
Info about the Pilsum Lighthouse (Wikipedia):
The Pilsum Lighthouse (German: Pilsumer Leuchtturm) was built in 1889 in order to provide a beacon for the Emshörn channel on Germany's North Sea coast. It is located on a dyke near the village of Pilsum in the municipality of Krummhörn. It has guided ships through the narrow channel until 1915. In the First World War its light was extinguished in order that enemy ships could not navigate the route. After that it was no longer needed, because the channel was changed. The height of the structure is 11 metres; the height of the light about sea level is 15 metres. Today the tower is one of the best-known symbols of East Frisia.
This is one of the most famous lighthouses in Germany, but fame came through a german movie from 1989 "Otto – Der Ausserfriesische" by and with the frisian cemedian Otto Waalkes. In the movie the lighthouse was his home. The lighthouse was built 1888-1889 to secure ships sailing the Emshorn channel and was in use until 1915. After the war the channel wasn't in use anymore and it was the end of the lighthouse.
In 1962 it was sold to the Lower Saxon Bauamt für Küstenschutz and 1972 it got the famous yellow-red striped coloration.
And some pictures of it:
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| by Joerg Johann Mueller |
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| by Gene Inman |
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| by Michael Blaser |
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