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Old Lighthouse Borkum

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Old Lighthouse Borkum

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Location: East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany

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3. Borkum Nature Trail – Whalebone Fence Borkum loop from Borkum Bahnhof

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JR56

November 4, 2023

The Old Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse and at the same time the oldest building on all of the East Frisian Islands.

Archaeological excavations on Borkum revealed that there was already a small church here in the 14th century. In 1576, the city of Emden replaced the steeple of the small church with a 40 meter high tower as a daily mark for shipping: sea travel around the dreaded Borkum reef became a little safer. In 1817 everything became simpler: The Kingdom of Hanover had the Old Borkum Tower converted from a daylight to a lighthouse with oil lamps and parabolic mirrors. When the lighthouse burned out in 1879, Prussia built the New Borkum Lighthouse.

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June 3, 2023

Worth a detour. Worth seeing and you can form something in the history of Borkum.

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July 9, 2023

The old lighthouse is a few hundred meters in front of the new lighthouse

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Location: East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany

Old Lighthouse Borkum

1. Borkum Nature Trail – Whalebone Fence Borkum loop from Borkum Bahnhof

2. South Beach Borkum – Dune landscape at Sturmeck loop from Borkum

3. Borkum Nature Trail – Whalebone Fence Borkum loop from Borkum Bahnhof

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