Description Tower was used until 1987 as lighthouse, and is today used as transmission tower.
The call sign of the leading lights are Oc W 6 sec. The range of the fire amounted to 15 n.m. with the upper fire and 12 n.m. with the lower fire. The upper fire is carried by a 35m high concrete tower which corresponds in the essentials to the upper fire of Voslapp and Tossens. The lower fire is in a three-legged, steel-grey painted 16m high steel tower with which the lantern is directly above the leg rack and owns a running around gallery. The rise to the lantern had to occur about a not-binding leader. During some years the area between the tower legs has the visibility improved from lake with pine.
In 1987 the leading lights line was given up. The upper fire served furthermore as a radar or aerials tower and was stroked in a yellow warning colour. Today nothing more reminds in this respect of the past of the tower than beacon. However, the lower fire remained as an across brands fire in the group with the leading lights Voslapp till the end of October, 1998 in company.
Since then the building stands unused on the "beach" of Schillig and becomes during the summer months of campers hungry for bath surrounds. There run nowadays local attempts to receive the tower as a maritime monument.
The history of the beacons at Schillig is already much older naturally, nevertheless, the location was at that time 'oldenburgische Heppens' for the biggest German sea naval port which became as a result today's Wilhelmshaven. Already in 1876 a lighthouse which served from 1914 as an upper fire for a leading lights line originated in the Schillighörn. In the second generation a new lighthouse pair in the Schillighörn which stood up to the new building of the leading lights line in 1961 in company was built in 1925.
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