Kapelludden Lighthouse
Kapelludden Lighthouse, at Kapelludden on the east coast of the Swedish island of Öland, was built and lit in 1871. It is located in a wetland near the ruin of a 13th-century chapel, in Bredsättra socken, Borgholm Municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Olaf2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Borgholm Municipality, Baltic coast, Sweden
- Also known as: “Kapelludden lighthouse”, “Kapelluddens fyr”, and “Kapelluddens Lighthouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Saint Birgitta’s chapel.
Saint Birgitta’s chapel
Photo: Hstad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Birgitta's chapel is located on the east coast of the island of Öland, Sweden, some four kilometers from the village of Bredsättra in Bredsättra socken, Borgholm Municipality, in a marshy area called Kapelludden. Saint Birgitta’s chapel is situated 260 metres west of Kapelludden Lighthouse.
Kapelludden Lighthouse
- Categories: Heidenstam lighthouse, building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Bredsätra socken, Borgholm, Borgholm Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
56.81956° or 56° 49′ 10″ northLongitude
16.84503° or 16° 50′ 42″ eastElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Inception
1872Open location code
9F8RRR9W+R2OpenStreetMap ID
way 340824632OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“Kapelludden Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Kapelludden”
- French: “Phare de Kapelludden”
- German: “Kapelluddens fyr”
- German: “Leuchtturm Kapelludden”
- Portuguese: “Farol Kapelludden”
- Portuguese: “Kapelludden”
- Swedish: “Kapelludden”
- Swedish: “Kapelluddens fyr”
- Swedish: “Ölands östra”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kapelludden Lighthouse”. Photo: Olaf2, CC BY-SA 3.0.