Tinsdal Upper Lighthouse

For over a hundred years, the Tinsdal lighthouse has provided valuable services for ships traveling down the Elbe near the Falkensteiner Ufer in Hamburg-Rissen. The interesting building has been a listed building since 2004.At Elbe km 639, on the Geest slope in the Wittenbergen Heath, there is the Tinsdal lighthouse, also known as the “Tinsdal upper light” because it is part of a guide light line. Shipmasters can correct their course at a guide light, which always consists of two lighthouses, namely a higher upper light and a smaller lower light.What is fascinating about lighthouses is the different construction methods and technical data. The Tinsdal upper fire is a fully riveted steel lattice construction with a cylindrical tower shaft made of sheet steel, which was built on a tower access floor made of brick masonry. It is considered one of the oldest steel lighthouses constructed using the stair-pipe construction with hip rafters.The area on which the Tinsdal lighthouse stands is approximately at NN + 19.10 m. The tower shaft is 41.70 meters high and has a diameter of four meters at the bottom and two meters at the top. The diameter of the tower head is 4.50 meters and its height is 4.95 meters. The fire height is at NN + 57.50 m.After the Tinsdal headlight was connected to the local power grid in 1966 and equipped with an emergency generator, the fire no longer had to be guarded by a lighthouse keeper. The tower has been completely remote-controlled since 1979. In 1988 the light source was replaced again. Today, a double signal headlight with a full lens and 12 V/55 watts does its job reliably.hamburg.de/gehenswuerdigkeiten/5345698/leuchtturm-tinsdal

One of two prominent lighthouses in Rissen. This one stands far above the Elbe.

Since 1900, the 42-meter-high steel lattice tower has formed the Wittenbergen-Tinsdal leading light line as a front light together with the Wittenbergen lighthouse as a front light, which shows ships on the Elbe their way