Lighthouses on the Baltic Sea

They are prominent in the truest sense of the word and attract the interest of many visitors to the coast. Navigational beacons, including masonry towers, have a history stretching back thousands of years. Most of the oldest lighthouses still standing today date from the mid-19th century.
Although shipping now has access to modern positioning systems, lighthouses are still considered indispensable. From around the 1970s onward, their lights were converted to remote operation. Before that, lighthouse keepers operated the facilities, usually living with their families in an adjacent building.
Some of these buildings along the Baltic coast are particularly well known, and most can also be climbed. They include the lighthouse on Hiddensee, the one in Warnemünde at the beginning of the street “Am Alten Strom,” the lighthouse on the Buk near Kühlungsborn, which has a long range despite its modest height thanks to its elevated location, and the two lighthouses at Cape Arkona on Rügen (see photo).
The lighthouse in what is now Polish Świnoujście is still the tallest on the entire Baltic coast, while the lighthouse on the island of Greifswalder Oie is the only one visible from many places along the Baltic coast of Usedom.