Lighthouse Nieuwe Sluis -Breskens by Ellen Driesse

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About "Lighthouse Nieuwe Sluis -Breskens"

by Ellen Driesse

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New Sluis is a lighthouse in the hamlet Nieuwesluis, a few kilometers west of the village of Breskens in the Dutch province of Zeeland. The lighthouse was designed by Quirinus Harder and built in 1866-1867. The octagonal, black and white painted tower on the sea wall at the entrance of the Westerschelde. The tower has a height of 28.4 meters and has five floors. He is part of a series of lights that mark the end of the Scheldt and accompany the shipping traffic between the North Sea and Antwerp.

This tower is after the lighthouse was demolished in Renesse in 1915, the oldest surviving cast iron lighthouse in the Netherlands, and rattled the iron rod of Ouddorp in 1911. The tower has not always been black and white bands, but was at first yellow and then was equipped with red and white bands. The optics of the tower was designed by Barbier, Bénard & Turenne. The light house contains a copper dome.

Originally the lighthouse as high light part of the light line with a cutaway light revolt which was built simultaneously with the lighthouse at the 't Killetje of Nieuwesluis.

During World War II the lighthouse was taken out of operation for some time and then provided with camouflage colors. After the war, the light is only switched on again in 1951. The lighthouse was then a light one embezzlement counts per ten seconds. The low light was moved after the war to the Orange Square in Breskens. Nowadays it Spuiplein.
On October 3, 2011 the light of this tower was exting

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About Ellen Driesse

Ellen Driesse-Pladdet, born and raised in beautiful Zeeuws-Vlaanderen close to the beach and dunes, grew up in the middle of the nature of Zeeland's countryside. A nature lover who enjoys everything Mother Nature has to offer and treats it with respect.
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