Campen Lighthouse Explained

Location:Campen, Germany
Coordinates:53.4058°N 7.0157°W
Yearbuilt:1891
Construction:steel lattice
Shape:pyramidal skeletal tower with central white cylinder, double balcony and lantern
Marking:red skeletal tower, white central cylinder, red lantern
Height:[1]
Intensity:4,500,000 cd
Characteristic:continuous white light along the channel line
white flash every 5s narrow right
four white flashes every 15s narrow left

Campen Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in the village of Campen, by the Ems estuary, northwest of Emden, in the East Frisia region, state of Lower Saxony, Germany.[2] At a height of it is the fourteenth tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world and the tallest in Germany.

The structure consists of a free-standing lattice tower with the stair shaft inside. The lighthouse was built in 1889 and went in service on 1 October 1891.

The lamp of Campen Lighthouse has a light intensity of 4.5 million candelas, the most powerful lighthouse lamp in Germany.Remarkably, the aperture of its flashing light to the left and right has an angle of only 0.3 degrees. The continuous light aperture is also quite small, less than 0.6 degrees.

The machine building contains the oldest workable diesel engine in Germany. It was built in 1906 and has a power of 15 kilowatts.

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Notes and References

  1. According to List of Lights. Structurae says 65.3 m, which translates to 214 ft. The Lighthouse Directory has "65.3 m (214.2 ft)".
  2. 29 January 2016.