Scheveningen Lighthouse

Lighthouse

52°6′15″N 4°16′6″E / 52.10417°N 4.26833°E / 52.10417; 4.26833TowerConstructed1875Constructioncast iron towerHeight30 metres (98 ft)Shapedodecagonal prism tower with balcony and galleryMarkingsred tower, white balcony and lantern, green lantern domeHeritageRijksmonument

LightFirst lit20 December 1875

Focal height49 metres (161 ft)Intensity3,800,000 candela

Range29 nautical miles (54 km)CharacteristicFl(2) W 10sNetherlands no.NL-1292^[1]

De Scheveningen Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Scheveningen, Netherlands. It was designed by Quirinus Harder and activated finished in 1875.

History

In the 16th century Scheveningen had a lighthouse already, and the church collected money from the ships using it. It was elevated in 1850, and equipped with a copper cupola and a new light. In the 1870s, Dutch lighthouse designer Quirinus Harder got the assignment for a new lighthouse.

The lighthouse is made of cast iron and consists of nine segments. At the foot of the tower is one house for the supervisor and four more for the lighthouse keeper. The original light rotated in a mercury bath, which was replaced in the 1960s by an electrical system.