Denmark's last open coal-brazier lighthouse
Halsskov Lighthouse was built by the Danish Postal Service in 1727 to help get the post safely across the Great Belt. The first beacon on the site was probably a vippefyr" - a huge tripod that levered an iron brazier of glowing coals up into the darkness. That was…
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Halskov Fyr
Det ottekantede fundament med fire trapper, sokkel og jernkurv
År: 2004 PHOTO:Eske M
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