Nidden Lighthouse
Also known as: Нидден
active · Tower 29 m
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At a glance
Place
- Country
- Lithuania
Structure
Signal
- Visibility
- 22 Legacy archive claim · Нидден
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Names & naming history
RU · Official
- Нидден
- Mayachnik Drupal export Field: title
(autotranslated, could have mistakes)
Image removed from public review package. Local review only · not public no-info · nidden.jpgInstalled on the Urbo-Kalnis hill near the Lithuanian village of Nidda on the Curonian Spit - a narrow sandy peninsula on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. A hilly, densely forested, picturesque spit separates the Curonian Lagoon from the sea.
Until 1923, the city of Memel (from 1923 - Klaipeda) and the Curonian Spit belonged to East Prussia, and the first lighthouse here was built by the Germans in 1893. It was an octagonal cast-iron tower 23 m high. A light-optical apparatus installed in a lantern structure at an altitude of 68 m from sea level shone a white flashing light for 22 miles, indicating the position of the spit.
This lighthouse stood until the end of the Great Patriotic War. In January 1945, there were fierce battles for Klaipeda, where there was a naval base of the German fleet, and the capital of East Prussia, Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad). On January 23, 1945, Klaipeda was liberated, and soon the Curonian Spit was cleared of the enemy. During the retreat, the Germans blew up the lighthouse.
Since the fire on the spit was necessary for the advanced forces of the Baltic Fleet, which began to be based in Klaipeda, immediately after the liberation of Nidda, a wooden tower with a height of 14 m was built on the site of the old lighthouse, and in 1951, a round reinforced concrete tower with a balcony and a lantern structure with a height of 29 m was built here by the Hydrographic Service of the Baltic Fleet. USSR towers made of monolithic reinforced concrete structures with a thickness of outer walls of 14-20 cm. The white flashing light of the lighthouse was clearly visible over the sand dunes both from the sea and from the bay at a distance of up to 22 miles.
In 1966, a marker radio beacon MRM-61 was installed at the lighthouse. A nautofon was installed to provide fog signals. One of its emitters sent signals towards the bay, the other - towards the sea. However, in the fall of 1967, a powerful hurricane that erupted in the Baltic Sea, the metal tower of the lighthouse was toppled and the service buildings were damaged. The installation work had to be done again.
In the post-war period, wonderful specialists worked at the lighthouse. Since 1956, for about 30 years, the lighthouse team was successfully led by a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Fedorovich Kravchenko.
In 1980, the lighthouse was painted with white and red horizontal stripes. On the north side the tower has a black vertical stripe to indicate the entrance to the port of Klaipeda. The lighthouse is connected to the power grid of the city of Neringa.
At the end of the 1980s, it was planned to reconstruct the lighthouse with the installation of the Gras radio navigation system. However, this work was not completed, since the lighthouse was transferred to the jurisdiction of Lithuania.
Source: Beacons of Russia
(autotranslated, could have mistakes)
Image removed from public review package. Local review only · not public no-info · nidden.jpgInstalled on the Urbo-Kalnis hill near the Lithuanian village of Nidda on the Curonian Spit - a narrow sandy peninsula on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. A hilly, densely forested, picturesque spit separates the Curonian Lagoon from the sea.
Until 1923, the city of Memel (from 1923 - Klaipeda) and the Curonian Spit belonged to East Prussia, and the first lighthouse here was built by the Germans in 1893. It was an octagonal cast-iron tower 23 m high. A light-optical apparatus installed in a lantern structure at an altitude of 68 m from sea level shone a white flashing light for 22 miles, indicating the position of the spit.
This lighthouse stood until the end of the Great Patriotic War. In January 1945, there were fierce battles for Klaipeda, where there was a naval base of the German fleet, and the capital of East Prussia, Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad). On January 23, 1945, Klaipeda was liberated, and soon the Curonian Spit was cleared of the enemy. During the retreat, the Germans blew up the lighthouse.
Since the fire on the spit was necessary for the advanced forces of the Baltic Fleet, which began to be based in Klaipeda, immediately after the liberation of Nidda, a wooden tower with a height of 14 m was built on the site of the old lighthouse, and in 1951, a round reinforced concrete tower with a balcony and a lantern structure with a height of 29 m was built here by the Hydrographic Service of the Baltic Fleet. USSR towers made of monolithic reinforced concrete structures with a thickness of outer walls of 14-20 cm. The white flashing light of the lighthouse was clearly visible over the sand dunes both from the sea and from the bay at a distance of up to 22 miles.
In 1966, a marker radio beacon MRM-61 was installed at the lighthouse. A nautofon was installed to provide fog signals. One of its emitters sent signals towards the bay, the other - towards the sea. However, in the fall of 1967, a powerful hurricane that erupted in the Baltic Sea, the metal tower of the lighthouse was toppled and the service buildings were damaged. The installation work had to be done again.
In the post-war period, wonderful specialists worked at the lighthouse. Since 1956, for about 30 years, the lighthouse team was successfully led by a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Fedorovich Kravchenko.
In 1980, the lighthouse was painted with white and red horizontal stripes. On the north side the tower has a black vertical stripe to indicate the entrance to the port of Klaipeda. The lighthouse is connected to the power grid of the city of Neringa.
At the end of the 1980s, it was planned to reconstruct the lighthouse with the installation of the Gras radio navigation system. However, this work was not completed, since the lighthouse was transferred to the jurisdiction of Lithuania.
Source: Beacons of Russia
(autotranslated, could have mistakes)
Image removed from public review package. Local review only · not public no-info · nidden.jpgInstalled on the Urbo-Kalnis hill near the Lithuanian village of Nidda on the Curonian Spit - a narrow sandy peninsula on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. A hilly, densely forested, picturesque spit separates the Curonian Lagoon from the sea.
Until 1923, the city of Memel (from 1923 - Klaipeda) and the Curonian Spit belonged to East Prussia, and the first lighthouse here was built by the Germans in 1893. It was an octagonal cast-iron tower 23 m high. A light-optical apparatus installed in a lantern structure at an altitude of 68 m from sea level shone a white flashing light for 22 miles, indicating the position of the spit.
This lighthouse stood until the end of the Great Patriotic War. In January 1945, there were fierce battles for Klaipeda, where there was a naval base of the German fleet, and the capital of East Prussia, Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad). On January 23, 1945, Klaipeda was liberated, and soon the Curonian Spit was cleared of the enemy. During the retreat, the Germans blew up the lighthouse.
Since the fire on the spit was necessary for the advanced forces of the Baltic Fleet, which began to be based in Klaipeda, immediately after the liberation of Nidda, a wooden tower with a height of 14 m was built on the site of the old lighthouse, and in 1951, a round reinforced concrete tower with a balcony and a lantern structure with a height of 29 m was built here by the Hydrographic Service of the Baltic Fleet. USSR towers made of monolithic reinforced concrete structures with a thickness of outer walls of 14-20 cm. The white flashing light of the lighthouse was clearly visible over the sand dunes both from the sea and from the bay at a distance of up to 22 miles.
In 1966, a marker radio beacon MRM-61 was installed at the lighthouse. A nautofon was installed to provide fog signals. One of its emitters sent signals towards the bay, the other - towards the sea. However, in the fall of 1967, a powerful hurricane that erupted in the Baltic Sea, the metal tower of the lighthouse was toppled and the service buildings were damaged. The installation work had to be done again.
In the post-war period, wonderful specialists worked at the lighthouse. Since 1956, for about 30 years, the lighthouse team was successfully led by a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Fedorovich Kravchenko.
In 1980, the lighthouse was painted with white and red horizontal stripes. On the north side the tower has a black vertical stripe to indicate the entrance to the port of Klaipeda. The lighthouse is connected to the power grid of the city of Neringa.
At the end of the 1980s, it was planned to reconstruct the lighthouse with the installation of the Gras radio navigation system. However, this work was not completed, since the lighthouse was transferred to the jurisdiction of Lithuania.
Source: Beacons of Russia
Image removed from public review package. Local review only · not public no-info · nidden.jpgУстановлен на холме Урбо-Калнис возле литовского поселка Нидда на Куршской косе — узком песчаном полуострове на юго-восточном побережье Балтийского моря. Холмистая, покрытая густым лесом живописная коса отделяет от моря Куршский залив.
Поскольку огонь на косе был необходим передовым силам Балтийского флота, которые стали базироваться в Клайпеде, сразу после освобождения Нидды на месте старого маяка была сооружена деревянная вышка высотой 14 м, а в 1951 году Гидрографической службой Балтийского флота здесь была сооружена круглая железобетонная башня с балконом и фонарным сооружением высотой 29 м. Это была одна из первых в СССР башен из монолитных железобетонных конструкций с толщиной наружных стен 14—20 см. Белый проблесковый огонь маяка был хорошо виден поверх песчаных дюн как с моря, так и с залива на расстоянии до 22 миль.
На конец 1980-х годов была запланирована реконструкция маяка с установкой на нем радионавигационной системы "Грас". Однако работы эти не были завершены, так как маяк был передан в ведение Литвы.
Источник: Маяки России
(autotranslated, could have mistakes)
Image removed from public review package. Local review only · not public no-info · nidden.jpgInstalled on the Urbo-Kalnis hill near the Lithuanian village of Nidda on the Curonian Spit - a narrow sandy peninsula on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. A hilly, densely forested, picturesque spit separates the Curonian Lagoon from the sea.
Until 1923, the city of Memel (from 1923 - Klaipeda) and the Curonian Spit belonged to East Prussia, and the first lighthouse here was built by the Germans in 1893. It was an octagonal cast-iron tower 23 m high. A light-optical apparatus installed in a lantern structure at an altitude of 68 m from sea level shone a white flashing light for 22 miles, indicating the position of the spit.
This lighthouse stood until the end of the Great Patriotic War. In January 1945, there were fierce battles for Klaipeda, where there was a naval base of the German fleet, and the capital of East Prussia, Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad). On January 23, 1945, Klaipeda was liberated, and soon the Curonian Spit was cleared of the enemy. During the retreat, the Germans blew up the lighthouse.
Since the fire on the spit was necessary for the advanced forces of the Baltic Fleet, which began to be based in Klaipeda, immediately after the liberation of Nidda, a wooden tower with a height of 14 m was built on the site of the old lighthouse, and in 1951, a round reinforced concrete tower with a balcony and a lantern structure with a height of 29 m was built here by the Hydrographic Service of the Baltic Fleet. USSR towers made of monolithic reinforced concrete structures with a thickness of outer walls of 14-20 cm. The white flashing light of the lighthouse was clearly visible over the sand dunes both from the sea and from the bay at a distance of up to 22 miles.
In 1966, a marker radio beacon MRM-61 was installed at the lighthouse. A nautofon was installed to provide fog signals. One of its emitters sent signals towards the bay, the other - towards the sea. However, in the fall of 1967, a powerful hurricane that erupted in the Baltic Sea, the metal tower of the lighthouse was toppled and the service buildings were damaged. The installation work had to be done again.
In the post-war period, wonderful specialists worked at the lighthouse. Since 1956, for about 30 years, the lighthouse team was successfully led by a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Fedorovich Kravchenko.
In 1980, the lighthouse was painted with white and red horizontal stripes. On the north side the tower has a black vertical stripe to indicate the entrance to the port of Klaipeda. The lighthouse is connected to the power grid of the city of Neringa.
At the end of the 1980s, it was planned to reconstruct the lighthouse with the installation of the Gras radio navigation system. However, this work was not completed, since the lighthouse was transferred to the jurisdiction of Lithuania.
Source: Beacons of Russia
Heritage identity & evidence
Identity
- LUX ID
LUX-LH-000091- Type
- Range light
- Object kind
- Range light
- Current status
- active
Review & coverage
External identifiers
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Operational status
Selected value: active
Why this value is shown: Current evidence is active; Source: Legacy archive field; Inherited from the archive
Field support: Needs a reviewed field source
Archive value: active
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- active selected why: Current evidence is active; Source: Legacy archive field; Inherited from the archive · Нидден Current · archive · Legacy archive field
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- claim_id
CLAIM-LUX-LH-000091-status-001- review_status
current- confidence
archive- source_type
migration_field- winner_reason
current active claim; source type migration_field; confidence archive
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- field_id
status- current_claim_id
CLAIM-LUX-LH-000091-status-001- winner_reason
current active claim; source type migration_field; confidence archive- field_support_status
no-trusted-reference- candidate_count
1- distinct_value_count
1- review_guidance
accepted/current claims without valid_to; prefer accepted, then latest valid_from, curated source, confidence, id.
Construction or building date
Phase history: 1893
Reviewer action: Treat each active date as a separate lighthouse phase, rebuild, first-light, or current-structure date before promoting phase-specific facts.
Field support: Needs a reviewed field source
Archive value: 1893
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- 1893 · Нидден Current · archive · Legacy archive field
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CLAIM-LUX-LH-000091-construction_date-001- review_status
current- confidence
archive- source_type
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- field_id
construction_date- current_claim_id
CLAIM-LUX-LH-000091-construction_date-001- field_support_status
no-trusted-reference- candidate_count
1- distinct_value_count
1- review_guidance
repeatable lifecycle phase field; display active values as phase history and only flag conflict when review assigns two different values to the same phase.
Tower height
Selected value: 29
Why this value is shown: Current evidence is active; Source: Legacy archive field; Inherited from the archive
Field support: Needs a reviewed field source
Archive value: 29 m
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- 29 selected why: Current evidence is active; Source: Legacy archive field; Inherited from the archive · Нидден Current · archive · Legacy archive field
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- claim_id
CLAIM-LUX-LH-000091-tower_height-001- review_status
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current active claim; source type migration_field; confidence archive
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tower_height- current_claim_id
CLAIM-LUX-LH-000091-tower_height-001- winner_reason
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no-trusted-reference- candidate_count
1- distinct_value_count
1- review_guidance
accepted/current claims without valid_to; prefer accepted, then latest valid_from, curated source, confidence, id.
Light visibility / range
Selected value: 22
Why this value is shown: Current evidence is active; Source: Legacy archive field; Inherited from the archive
Field support: Needs a reviewed field source
Archive value: 22 miles
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- 22 selected why: Current evidence is active; Source: Legacy archive field; Inherited from the archive · Нидден Current · archive · Legacy archive field
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- claim_id
CLAIM-LUX-LH-000091-light_visibility-001- review_status
current- confidence
archive- source_type
migration_field- winner_reason
current active claim; source type migration_field; confidence archive
Technical details
- field_id
light_visibility- current_claim_id
CLAIM-LUX-LH-000091-light_visibility-001- winner_reason
current active claim; source type migration_field; confidence archive- field_support_status
no-trusted-reference- candidate_count
1- distinct_value_count
1- review_guidance
accepted/current claims without valid_to; prefer accepted, then latest valid_from, curated source, confidence, id.
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External Identity Graph
- LUX Light ArchiveLUX-LH-000091 Canonical LUX ID
Local identity anchor for the record and related claims.
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- WikipediaSearch / review Search lead
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Facts
- Construction or building date construction_date · 1893
- Light visibility / range light_visibility · 22
- Operational status status · active
- Tower height tower_height · 29
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Current status: active
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Construction date recorded.
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Construction phases
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- 1893 · Нидден · Phase claim
Source narrative context: ...3 - Klaipeda) and the Curonian Spit belonged to East Prussia, and the first lighthouse here was built by the Germans in 1893. It was an octagonal cast-iron tower 23 m high. A light-optical apparatus installed in a lantern structure at an altitude of 68 m from sea level shone a white flashing light for 22 miles, indicating the position of the spit.
- 1923 · Source narrative · Narrative lead
Source narrative context: Until 1923, the city of Memel (from 1923 - Klaipeda) and the Curonian Spit belonged to East Prussia, and the first lighthouse here was built by the Germans in 1893. It was an octagonal cast-iron tower 23 m high. A light-optical apparatus installed in a lantern structure at an altitude of 68 m from sea lev...
Evidence and data
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Lighthouse history (1 events)
- Construction date recordedrecord-derived
Record history (2 changes)
- Archive record createdarchive-metadata
- Archive record updatedarchive-metadata
Connection graph (1 objects)
Geo timeline (0 places)
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- Geography contextЛитва · text-only
Rights & Attribution
Content License
Original editorial content on this page: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. See Rights & Reuse.
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Attribution
"Nidden Lighthouse" · LUX-LH-000091 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/lighthouses/LUX-LH-000091/
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Lighthouse record: "Nidden Lighthouse", LUX-LH-000091, https://light.lux143.org/lighthouses/LUX-LH-000091/, accessed 2026-07-03, archive v0.24.42.
Legacy archive provenance
This object now uses its LUX identity as the public record. The original Drupal node is preserved as migration provenance and a compatibility route.
- Canonical LUX ID
- LUX-LH-000091
- Legacy node
- node:582
- Legacy URL
- /node/582/
- Drupal source type
- lighthouse
- Source system
- drupal_migration
- Source path
- /node/582
Trusted References
Known external identifiers and review leads for Wikipedia, Wikidata, map, registry, and catalogue coverage. Search leads are not accepted evidence until reviewed. Field-level evidence is implied only when evidence scope or supported fields are explicit.
| Source | Status | Evidence scope | Reference | Review note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | search-candidate | Search / review | Resolve to a verified QID before treating as evidence. | |
| Wikipedia | search-candidate | Search / review | Useful for public descriptions and cross-checking, but text must be rewritten or quoted sparingly. | |
| OpenStreetMap | search-candidate | Search / review | Resolve to a stable node, way, or relation URL before acceptance. | |
| ARLHS | review-source | Search / review | Search the World List of Lights and add a verified ARLHS ID when found. | |
| Lighthouse Directory | review-source | Search / review | Use the regional directory page as a trusted catalogue lead; add the exact URL after review. |
Record identifiers
- Node
- 582
- Source type
- lighthouse
- Review class
- Navigation light or range light
- Created
- 27/05/2011 14:37:31 UTC
- Changed
- 25/05/2016 15:38:29 UTC
- Source path
- /node/582
All technical fields
- Status
- active Legacy archive claim · Нидден
- Construction date
- 1893 Multiple lighthouse phases Нидден archive
- Tower height
- 29 Legacy archive claim · Нидден
- Focal height
- Not recorded
- Light height
- Not recorded
- Light characteristic
- Not recorded
- Light number
- Not recorded
- Operation
- Not recorded
- Visibility
- 22 Legacy archive claim · Нидден
- Legacy light IDs
- Not recorded
- Call sign
- Not recorded
- Lens / optics
- Not curated
- Latitude
- Not recorded
- Longitude
- Not recorded
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