Scheveningen Lighthouse

Scheveningen Lighthouse

Scheveningen Lighthouse
Location	Scheveningen, Netherlands
Coordinates	52°6′15″N 4°16′6″E
Tower
Constructed	1875
Construction	cast iron tower
Height	30 metres (98 ft)
Shape	dodecagonal prism tower with balcony and gallery
Markings	red tower, white balcony and lantern, green lantern dome
Heritage	Rijksmonument
Light
First lit	20 December 1875
Focal height	49 metres (161 ft)
Intensity	3,800,000 candela
Range	29 nautical miles (54 km)
Characteristic	Fl(2) W 10s
Netherlands no.	NL-1292

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

History

Plaque above entrance

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.

See also

• List of lighthouses in the Netherlands
• Cast-iron architecture