Skagen Lighthouse

Skagen Lighthouse , also called Skagen's Gray Lighthouse is an active lighthouse 4 km 2.5 mi northeast of Skagen within the far north of Jutland , Denmark. Designed with the aid of architect Niels Sigfred Nebelong , it changed into brought into operation on November 1, 1858. Skagen's first lighthouse, the White Lighthouse Det Hvide Fyr, designed through Philip de Lange and finished in 1747, changed into the first lighthouse in Denmark to be constructed in brick. The Skagen Lighthouse which replaced it consists of an unpainted spherical brick tower with a lantern and gallery, reaching a top of 151 feet 46 m.

The two-storey keeper's house to which it is attached is painted vibrant yellow. When it turned into built it became extra or less on the centre of the Skagen Odde peninsula, however as a result of coastal erosion, it's far now very near the Kattegat coast to the southeast. The lighthouse has a -ton rotating lens resting on mercury. Originally there has been a five-wicked paraffin lamp which became successively replaced with a 1,000 Watt then a 1,500 Watt electric lamp. Today there's a 400 Watt sodium lamp which each four seconds can be seen as much as 37 km 20 mi away.