off Bremerhaven, 1881
Roter Sand
1885. Inactive since 1986. 28 m (92 ft) round cast iron, brick lined tower with primary and secondary lanterns and a triangular gallery, built on a steel caisson. Keeper's quarters incorporated in the tower. Lighthouse painted with red and white horizontal bands; the base of the tower and roofs of the lanterns are black. Werning has a page with a great photo, and Tim Boettger also has a good photo. One of the world's great waveswept lighthouses. Construction of the tower posed enormous difficulties; the first attempt failed when a storm overturned the incomplete caisson on October 13, 1881. The light was downgraded in 1964, when Alte Weser took over its function as the landfall light for Bremerhaven.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/deu1b.htm
1885. Inactive since 1986. 28 m (92 ft) round cast iron, brick lined tower with primary and secondary lanterns and a triangular gallery, built on a steel caisson. Keeper's quarters incorporated in the tower. Lighthouse painted with red and white horizontal bands; the base of the tower and roofs of the lanterns are black. Werning has a page with a great photo, and Tim Boettger also has a good photo. One of the world's great waveswept lighthouses. Construction of the tower posed enormous difficulties; the first attempt failed when a storm overturned the incomplete caisson on October 13, 1881. The light was downgraded in 1964, when Alte Weser took over its function as the landfall light for Bremerhaven.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/deu1b.htm
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