Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee

Vuurbaak Katwijk

Vuurbaak in 2023
Location	Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk, Netherlands
Coordinates	52°12′01″N 4°23′27″E / 52.200253°N 4.390961°E / 52.200253; 4.390961
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.