Lighthouses
Again and again, the legacy of the inventors will attract your attention during your travel through our cultural landscape: this includes the numerous lighthouses. In the truest sense of the word, lighthouses are a „highlight“ and one cannot imagine the North Sea coast landscape without them. Even some church towers which were situated in a strategically fortunate position, were used to take bearings, as old maps document.
Although todays radio-technical possibilities support the navigation work of the seamen, the lighthouses cannot be replaced. In addition, they have received further tasks: you can visit them, you can go around them (especially at night a real adventure), you can make advertisements with them, live or even marry in a lighthouse – in fact, this is the original function: to use their light to guide into a safe harbor…. All are unique specimen and in addition, they are very beautiful: the old tower of Wangerooge, the yellow-red ringed one in Krummhörn-Pilsum, the other striking islanders or the little brother of the Eiffel tower in Krummhörn-Campen. They all show you the way to go.
Lighthouse in Krummhörn-Pilsum
The lighthouse is an attractive place and a sought-after picture object with its picturesque red-yellow rings made famous by the Frisian comedian Otto.
Big new lighthouse on Borkum
Before they constructed the first navigation aid on the island of Borkum, the seamen orientated to the church tower of the island. In 1567, they constructed a 45 m high tower wich at first wasa day navigation aid, before it received a light.
Ancient lighthouse on Wangerooge
The lighthouses on the island have a very eventful history. The oldest lighthouse documented at the North Sea coast was situated at the former eastern end of the island.
