OK, so I led off the prior post with a quote from Hamlet, and that led me to look for a lighthouse in Denmark. I've featured several Denmark lighthouses already in the ongoing Lighthouse of the Week series, and even a repeat for one that had to be move on account of it being threatened with sand dune inundation.
This one this week is the Sletterhage Fyr, and as is my custom, the location of it is here. It's on a peninsula (Helgenæs Peninsula) that really ought to be an island, because the isthmus (Dragsmur) connecting it to bigger areas of land is really narrow. The nearest populated place of note is Århus, across the water of the remarkably named Bay of Århus.
Now we can get some information on it, from where I get my information, the Lighthouse Directory:
"1894 (station established 1872). Active; focal plane 17 m (56 ft); white, red or green light, depending on direction, 7.5 s on, 2.5 s off. 16 m (52 ft) round cylindrical tower with lantern and gallery, attached to a 1-story keeper's house. Lighthouse painted white, lantern white with red horizontal bands. ... The original lighthouse, a wood tower, was built by the city of Århus. In 2009 a preservation group Sletterhage Fyrs Venner was formed to work for preservation of the lighthouse and to open it to the public. The lighthouse marks the end of the Helgenæs peninsula about 20 km (13 mi) east of Århus."
Three pictures and a video complete this post.
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