Global InformationVuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee information
 Vuurbaak in 2023 | |
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| Location | Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk, Netherlands |
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| Coordinates | 52°12′01″N 4°23′27″E / 52.200253°N 4.390961°E |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1605  |
| Construction | brick |
| Height | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Shape | square |
| Heritage | Rijksmonument |
| Light | |
| Deactivated | 1913 |
The Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee is a Dutch lighthouse in Katwijk aan Zee, in South Holland, on the North Sea. It is the second oldest lighthouse in the country; only the Brandaris (1594) is older.[1] The lighthouse was essentially just a 12-metre-tall (39 ft) tower on top of which a fire was lit whenever Katwijker fishers were out at sea (they fished for herring off the east coast of England). The fire was replaced with an oil lamp in the mid-19th century; by the early 1900s there were no fishing vessels from Katwijk and the lighthouse became inactive.
- ^ NWB/VVV Fietsgids Zuid-Hollandse kust en Randstad. ANWB/VVV fietsgids (in Dutch). Vol. 17. ANWB. 2003. p. 3. ISBN 9789018018221.