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2. Lighthouse Greifwalder Oie The Lighthouse Greifswalder Oie is a German lighthouse. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century in the Baltic Sea, next to RĂźgen, located on an island near the German coast. The height of this lighthouse is 49 metres. The island where it is located is about 1500 metres long and about 500 metres wide. Currently, nobody lives on the island. For a long time, two or three lighthouse guards or beacon machinists lived and worked partly with their families at the beacon homestead. The last of the beacon machinists, Heinz Mai, left with his family Greifswalder OIE in 1978. This ended the history of more than 120 years of lighthouse guards on the island. In an operation called Lighthouse several rockets were launched in the 1930s and 1940s for testing purposes, but it was a failure. The Lighthouse Greifswalder Oie is now used for tours and the island is a nature reserve. If you want to approach the lighthouse, you have to use a ship which needs 90 minutes to arrive. The site manger is Verien Jordsand. He waits there to show you the way to the lighthouse, to protect the wild birds. After that you have the chance to visit the lighthouse. Only a maximum of 50 visitors are allowed per day. The climate is rough and windy because it is small and very exposed to the sea. It is the brightest lighthouse in this part of Germany. Greifswalder Oie is an approximately 12 m (40 ft) octagonal pyramidal red brick tower. As of the 2000s, the islet is an uninhabited sea bird reserve, save for a single man who works the lighthouse, manages the small emergency yacht harbour (depth ca. 1.6m / 6 ft), and creates outdoor art objects that he scatters along a path that circles the island. There is an infrequent ferry service from PeenemĂźnde and Karlshagen. The site is open but the tower is closed .. From 1937 -1945 the island was a launch site for the German missile devolpment program. By Raphael, Randal (France), Marina, Alba Soto (Spain), Nick, Marvin, Leonhard, Germany, James and Eoin (Ireland)
STORY 1. Lighthouse Greifswalder Oie
I am standing in the Baltic sea next to RĂźgen. My history is long and I have much to tell. Let me introduce myself. I was built in the beginning of the 19th century. I am 49 metres high and the island that I am standing on is about 1500 metres long and 500 metres wide. Currently nobody lives here. From 1936 to 1991 I was a restricted military space first under control of the Nazi Germany and then the German Democratic Republic. In an operation called “the Lighthouseâ€? in the 1930s and 1940s numerous rocket launches were carried out. In 1937 there was an unsuccessful start attempt of the A3 rockets and between 1938 and 1942 A5 rockets were launched as well as 28 A4 rockets between 1943 and 1945. The plan was to study their behavior when the rockets entered the atmosphere, between that phase the rockets mostly break. That was an exciting time, but very loud! After the end of the second world war the red army also known as the Soviet army destroyed most of the constructions which were based on me. I am a nature reserve now and if you want to come to visit me you need to use a ship which sails 90 minutes and only 50 visitors per day are allowed to come and visit me.
By Nick, Marvin and Leonhard