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1. Hou Lighthouse – Hov Østerstrand loop from Bøgvad Huse

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2. Hou Lighthouse – Hov Østerstrand loop from Bøgvad Huse

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3. Hov Østerstrand – Hou Lighthouse loop from Bøgvad Huse

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Charlie Brown

June 17, 2023

Very nice little lighthouse, but privately owned. Cannot be visited.

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Stummi 🙋🏼‍♀️

June 20, 2023

We had hoped that this is where the café is. Unfortunately, no. This section of the hike around the northern tip is very beautiful and easy to walk on.

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August 9, 2025

This 12m high lighthouse, equipped with a sector light, was built in 1892 and was lit for the first time in December 1893. The first lighthouse keeper at Hou (from 1893 -1914) was Harald Valdemar Octavius Westerman, who was born in Svendborg in 1851. From August 1900 Harald Valdemar’s wife Laurine Dorthea Westermann was also employed as a lighthouse keeper here.

In 1907 new lenses and a new light source, an incandescent burner fuelled by petroleum, were installed in the lighthouse. In 1923 it was the first lighthouse in Denmark to be fitted with the “autoform” incandescent burner, which were manufactured in England.

Hou Lighthouse was automated between 1949-50, after which time there was no permanent keeper working at the lighthouse.

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Elevation 40 m

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Location: Langeland, Southern Denmark, Denmark

Hou Lighthouse

1. Hou Lighthouse – Hov Østerstrand loop from Bøgvad Huse

2. Hou Lighthouse – Hov Østerstrand loop from Bøgvad Huse

3. Hov Østerstrand – Hou Lighthouse loop from Bøgvad Huse

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