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The Cape Arkona Lighthouse ((ドイツ語:Leuchtturm Kap Arkona)) refers to two lighthouses and a radio navigation tower on the German Baltic Sea coast in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with the international serial number ''C 1062''. It is located on Cape Arkona on the peninsula of Wittow on the northern tip of the island of Rügen. All three towers were renovated in the early 1990s and are open to visitors. In the old lighthouse is a museum with an exhibition on lighthouses and maritime rescue as well as an outstation of the local registry office. Here marriages may be commemorated on a small plaque in front of the tower. The radio navigation tower (German: ''Peilturm'') is used as an art museum and studio. On each tower is an observation platform, from where there are unimpeded views over the island of Rügen, especially the Wittow peninsula. In fine weather the Danish island of Møn may be made out. == Schinkel Tower == The smaller of the two lighthouses was built of brick in 1826/27, to plans by the Prussian Main Construction Agency (''Oberbaudeputation''). The design is usually attributed to Karl Friedrich Schinkel, based mainly on a catalogue of drawings produced in 1863 by Schinkel's son-in-law, Alfred von Wolzogen. Schinkel was not mentioned, however, in a document published in 1828 on the "Construction Designs of the Prussian State", in which town planner, August Adolph Günther, cites the lighthouse as a ''"design by the Royal Main Construction Agency."'' Signatures on two drawings of the lighthouse were, on the one hand interpreted as evidence of Schinkel's authorship and, on the other, as no more than a simple administrative internal check note. No statements are known by Schinkel himself, who first viewed the tower in 1835, of his own participation in the construction of the tower. On the other hand, a contemporary, the Berliner engraver Johann Friedrich Rosmäsler, in his 1834 book, ''Preußen in landschaftlichen Darstellungen'' ("Prussia in Pictures") calls Schinkel the originator of the design. Rosmäsler produced a steel engraving of the lighthouse (1835).〔Helmut Hannes: ''Der Swinemünder Leuchtturm – ein Schinkel-Bau?'' In: ''Pommern. Zeitschrift für Kultur und Geschichte.'' Vol. 2/2011, , pp. 2–7. (which also has a picture of the steel engraving)〕 The foundation stone was laid on 5 May 1826 and the light was lit on 10 December 1827. The tower is high and has a focal height of . Its light was visible out to . The lighting apparatus was made by master goldsmith Hossauaer from Berlin. It consisted of 17 silver-plated, copper, parabolic mirrors, at the focal points of which were burners, each with its own oil tank of rapeseed oil. The associated mirrors were placed in metal rings in two staggered rows. In 1872, six additional lamps were installed, which ran on paraffin. A year later, the burners were completely converted to run on paraffin. The rooms of the three-storey tower were used as working rooms and stores. It was also called the Schinkel Tower (''Schinkelturm''). On 1 April 1905 it was taken out of service. It is the second-oldest lighthouse on the Baltic Sea coast after the Travemünde Lighthouse. The larger tower was built in 1901/02 immediately next to the old one, and taken into service on 1 April 1905. It is high and has a focal height of . It is made of brick and stands on an octagonal granite base. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cape Arkona Lighthouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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