Leuchtturm Neuwerk, Neuwerk

Name: Leuchtturm Neuwerk
Address: 1 Insel Neuwerk, Neuwerk, Germany

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The Great Tower Neuwerk is the most significant building of the Neuwerk island, belonging to Hamburg. Completed in 1310, the structure is one of the oldest worldwide that was used as lighthouse and still standing. This former beacon, watchtower and lighthouse is also the oldest building in Hamburg and oldest secular building on the German coast. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 53°54'55"N, 8°29'45"E

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1 Insel NeuwerkNeuwerk Germany

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Leuchtturm Neuwerk – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Blüse Neuwerk, Nigehörn, Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park, Radarturm.

0.6 miNW
Lighthouse
Blüse Neuwerk, Waddensea of Hamburg
15 min walk • The Blüse Neuwerk was built in 1644 by the city of Hamburg on the island Neuwerk. Together with the other beacons and the Great Tower Neuwerk, which was just a fortification at the time, it was the first lighthouse in the Elbe estuary and, after the Blüse Helgoland and Wangerooge, the third on the German North Sea coast.
3.5 miNW
Island
Nigehörn, Waddensea of Hamburg
90 min walk • Nigehörn is an uninhabited artificial island in the North Sea belonging to the German city of Hamburg.
3.2 miNW
National park
Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park
83 min walk • The Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park is the smallest of the three German Wadden Sea National Parks which protect the single ecological entity of the Wadden Sea reaching from Den Helder to Esbjerg.
0.7 miNW
53°55'29"N • 8°29'18"E
Radarturm, Waddensea of Hamburg
19 min walk • Tower
3.7 miNW
Island
Scharhörn
96 min walk • Scharhörn is an uninhabited island in the North Sea belonging to the city of Hamburg, Germany. The once most important daymark on the north sea coast, the Scharhörnbake, was maintained here by the City of Hamburg from 1440 to 1979.