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Roches-Douvres 1869 metal lighthouse

A 57-metre prefabricated metal lighthouse assembled for the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition, rebuilt on the Roches-Douvres plateau, lit on 6 August 1869 and destroyed by German forces in August 1944.

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  • Destroyed
    Roches-Douvres plateau08/1944reviewed

    German forces destroyed the occupied metal lighthouse in August 1944; the reviewed official sources do not establish 4 August as the exact date for this station.

  • Part of
    Roches-Douvres lighthouse station identity1869 – 1944reviewed

    The prefabricated metal tower embodied the Roches-Douvres station from 1869 until its wartime destruction.

  • Replaced by
    Roches-Douvres 1954 granite lighthouse1954reviewed

    The destroyed metal tower was replaced by the present granite-and-concrete lighthouse after seven years of offshore construction.

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"Roches-Douvres 1869 metal lighthouse" · LUX-ASSET-000659 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000659/

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LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Roches-Douvres 1869 metal lighthouse", LUX-ASSET-000659, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000659/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.