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Zeebrugge Haven High Lighthouse

Zeebrugge Haven High Lighthouse

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Zeebrugge Haven High Lighthouse

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Location: Knokke-Heist, Bruges, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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2. Cadzand-Bad Beach – The Zwin Nature Reserve loop from Cadzand-Bad

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3. Lissenweegs Vaartje in 1271 – Admiraal Eyesplein loop from Knokke

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MW aus LE

December 30, 2017

The Heist Low Lighthouse is a Belgian lighthouse whose light has gone out. After the collapse of the Zwin, the city of Bruges looked for another way out of the sea and found it at the beginning of the 20th century with the Zeebrugge seaport. The shipping channel to this port was called Pas van 't Zand and was deepened. To mark this waterway, two engineering companies had two lighthouses built. One of these two lighthouses was the Heist lighthouse, built between 1905 and 1907. Together with the Heist High Lighthouse, it formed a light line for ships that wanted to enter the port of Zeebrugge. The light line was visible to ships that had a good course of 136 degrees, so the light rays of the low guide light and the high guide light were in one line. Due to the expansion of the port of Zeebrugge, the lighthouse lost its function and the light was extinguished. The lighthouse is located at the end of the Zeedijk van Heist (admittedly on the territory of Bruges - Zeebrugge) next to an active (higher) light riot and in the shadow of the Seawall development. Today it stands next to the Zeebrugge Haven Hoog light uprising, which forms a new line of light together with the Lichopstand Zeebrugge Haven Laag.
Source: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lage_vuurtoren_van_Heist

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Mapf

September 1, 2019

In the early 1970s, began with the expansion of the outer port of Zeebrugge. The harbor dams, including the new sea lock, which can be extended deep into the sea, led among other things to the laying of the harbor canal. The lighthouse at the pier and the existing light line (high and low light in Heist) could no longer be used to mark the harbor channel.

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PinionRadlerJan

May 15, 2024

Old and new lighthouse next to each other.

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Location: Knokke-Heist, Bruges, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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Zeebrugge Haven High Lighthouse

1. BLANKENBERGE letter sculpture – Zeebrugge Marina loop from Vosseslag

2. Cadzand-Bad Beach – The Zwin Nature Reserve loop from Cadzand-Bad

3. Lissenweegs Vaartje in 1271 – Admiraal Eyesplein loop from Knokke

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