Eierland Lighthouse

The Eierland Lighthouse is a lighthouse at the northernmost tip of the Dutch island of Texel. It is named for the previous island Eierland. The lighthouse becomes designed by means of Quirinus Harder and production commenced on 25 July 1863. The lighthouse become built on pinnacle of a 20-metre high sand dune, and was lit on 1 November 1864. At that time, the distance from the lighthouse to the ocean became 3 kilometres. Initially the lighthouse had a kerosene lamp. The cutting-edge electric lamp is a 2000 watt Philips fluorescent lamp, generating 2.Eighty five million candelas, and the light is targeted with some of Fresnel lenses. It has automatically engaged spare lamps. The lighthouse was at the start red, but within the course of time that colour faded to purple.

In 1977 the tower become included with a red plastic coating. Since 1982 the lighthouse is a Rijksmonument. During the Georgian Uprising of Texel of April 1945 the lighthouse suffered heavy harm. It become repaired with the aid of constructing a new wall around it and a brand new upper-stage construction. In this method the lighthouse lost of its authentic nine storeys. During the Nineteen Nineties the lighthouse, inclusive of the very top and the lamp, become open for visitors. Closed for a while, it changed into reopened in 2009 and is offered as much as the 6 ground.