Location Borkum, Germany Foundation 3-story octagonal base Height 60 m Phone +49 4922 7799 | Year first lit 1879 Construction brick tower Opened 1817 Year first constructed 1817 | |
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Tower shape cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern Markings / pattern unpainted gray-brown tower, brown basement, red lantern dome. Address Strandstraße, 26757 Borkum, Germany Hours Open today · 10AM–5PMThursday10AM–5PMFriday10AM–5PMSaturday10AM–5PMSunday10AM–5PMMonday10AM–5PMTuesday10AM–5PMWednesday10AM–5PM Similar Heimatmuseum Borkum Dykhus, Nordsee Aquarium, Kulturinsel, Nationalpark Schiff Feuerschi, Alter Leuchtturm Borkum | ||
Borkum Großer Light (from German: Großer Leuchtturm, "greater lighthouse"), also known as Borkum Neuer Light (Neuer Leuchtturm, "new lighthouse"), is an active lighthouse on the island of Borkum, Leer district, state of Lower Saxony, Germany. At a height of 197 feet (60 m) it is the twenty-fourth tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world, as well as the third tallest brick lighthouse in the world. The lighthouse is located at the west side of the Borkum island. It is the landfall light for the Ems estuary and the port of Emden, serving also as a day mark.
This lighthouse also bares a directional continuous light at a height of 151 feet (46 m) to three different directions with the colors white, red and green.
The tower was built in the summer of 1879 in a record time of six months, following a fire at the old lighthouse.
The site is open, and the tower is open to the public daily April through October and on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday afternoons November through March.