Germany has quite a few lighthouses for not a lot of ocean coastline. It's a close thing, but it might have more km of coastline on the Baltic Sea than on the North Sea. This one is quite far north, nearly to Denmark. It's on an island named Nordmarsch-Langeneß in a group of islands called the Halligen, which is apparently representative of islands without dikes to protect them.
By the way, lighthouses are called "Leuchtturm" in Germany.
Click on this line to see where it is.
Here are a few lines from the Lighthouse Directory describing it:
"1902. Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); three long white flashes every 20 s, white or red depending on direction. 11 m (36 ft) round cylindrical brick tower with lantern and gallery. Lighthouse is unpainted brown brick; lantern is white with a black roof. Fresnel lens in use."
Several pictures are below (though there aren't a lot of them available -- it's not easy to get to this low-inhabitant island). A couple of them are from this page: Lighthouse pages from Anke and Jens
The Fresnel lens is visible in the last one.
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