I decided to feature this lighthouse after a random search with a random search word (I won't even bother to tell you what it was). So knowing that "Lechtturm" is "lighthouse", of course, this is the Staberhuk Lechtturm of Germany?
Where is it? It's here. It's northeast of Hamburg and Lübeck, east of Kiel, on the way to Denmark.
So, let's find out the details of this one. (Lighthouse Directory is the source.)
"1904. Active; focal plane 25.5 m (84 ft); white or green light, depending on direction, occulting twice, separated by 3 s, every 20 s. 22.5 m (74 ft) round brick tower with lantern and gallery. Tower unpainted, lantern and gallery painted red. A complete light station, with 1-1/2 story keeper's house and other buildings. ... This lighthouse has two unique features. First, the original yellow brick of the tower did not stand up to the harsh weather of Baltic winters, so it was replaced by red brick, but only on the north and west sides of the tower. As a result, the tower appears from the distance to have a yellow vertical stripe on its seaward (southeast) side. Second, Staberhuk's lantern room and Fresnel lens were originally installed by the English lighthouse agency Trinity House on the Helgoland Light in 1870, while Britain administered that North Sea island; they became available for this tower when the lighthouse on Helgoland was replaced by a taller tower in 1901."
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