Rödkallen

Rödkallen is a small uninhabited (summer cabins are in use) Swedish island and lighthouse station located in the Bothnian Bay in the south part of Luleå archipelago. The island was used by fishermen a long time before the lighthouse was built. In 1800 a chapel was built for the fishermen and it survives to this day.

Rödkallen (first)
Rödkallen Södra (current)
Rödkallen in winter.
Sweden
LocationRödkallen
southeast of Luleå
Norrbotten
Sweden
Coordinates65.314137°N 22.369787°E / 65.314137; 22.369787
Year first constructed1872 (first)
Year first lit1972 (current)
Automated1966
Deactivated1972 (first)
(current light "South Rödkallen" nearby)
Foundationconcrete
Constructioncast iron skeletal tower (first)
masonry 5-storey building (current)
Tower shapeconical skeletal tower with central cylinder, balcony and lantern (first)
building with lantern on the roof (current)
Markings / patternred tower, greenish lantern roof (first)
yellow lower 3-storey, red upper 2-storey building, white lantern (current)
Tower height21.5 metres (71 ft) (first)
18 metres (59 ft) (current)
Focal height22 metres (72 ft)
Original lensparabolic mirrors
Current lens1st order Fresnel lens (1893)
Range15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi)
CharacteristicLFl WRG 10s.
Admiralty numberC5745
NGA number11628
ARLHS numberSWE-323 (first)
SWE-054 (current)
Sweden numberSV-0354
Managing agentSwedish Maritime Administration (Sjöfartsverket)[1]

Lighthouse

The lighthouse was constructed after Nils Gustaf von Heidenstam's skeletal iron design. Originally it carried a colza oil lamp which was changed to a kerosene lamp 1884. In 1936 a small electric plant was built on the island which was used by the lighthouse. After one hundred years in service the old lighthouse was deactivated in favor of the small modern Rödkallen södra (south) light on the roof of a pilot station. The tall building has a yellow and red daymark. The station was closed down in 1981. A small hotel was started in the building in 2000, but it was closed in 2008. The old lighthouse is preserved and its large lens still mounted, covered with a shroud. In 2005 it was successfully tested for a while. On the island is also a couple of old stone mazes. Rödkallen is one of the many wind observation stations in the shipping news of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.

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See also

References
  1. Rödkallen The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved April 6, 2016
  • Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Sweden: Northern Bothnia". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 28 August 2010.



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