Spårö båk
1776
Neoclassical
lighthouse
A båk is an unlit seamark, built to be seen by day rather than to shine at night, and Spårö båk stands on the crown of Spåröberget about 34 meters above the water in the Tjust archipelago. Västervik had watched its marks fall down for…
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- 1776
Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz
- 1884
The first lighthouse on Spårö, to a design by G E Höjer, was built next to the daymark, together with a keeper's dwelling and outbuildings. The daymark itself was not altered, but its role was: with a lit tower on the island it served from…
- 1925
Lightning struck on 1 September and set the shingle roof alight, and the fire burned for a day in the timber. The daymark was made good afterwards with a roof of ship plate instead of shingle and new floor structures partly in concrete, so…
- 1934
The lighthouse of the 1880s was replaced by a new one, and the old tower was not pulled down but built into a new watch house. The daymark stood through the change, so the island then carried a daymark, a new light and the reused fabric of…
- 2018
Sjöfartsverket had façade and roof maintenance carried out by crew from the lighthouse tender Fyrbjörn before the daymark passed to the municipality. Västerviks kommun repaired the jetty, the steps and the footpaths, so the tower was put…
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