The beacon served as a cross mark light for the point at which ships on the Jade needed to make a course correction.
At the end of 2005, the water and shipping authority sold the cross mark light for a symbolic price to Anton Tapken, the captain of the excursion boat "Etta von Dangast" based in Dangast. He had the lighthouse dismantled on November 8, 2005 and transported it lying on his passenger ship to Dangast, where he had it rebuilt in the port there on his own property as a maritime monument.
But the people of Wilhelmshaven, who would have liked to keep the lighthouse on the spot themselves, cried out and protested against the sale. As a result, they had a faithful replica built at the same location through a fundraiser, which was inaugurated in autumn 2006.
A sponsor board lists the names that made the replica possible.