GERMANY

GERMANY / DEUTSCHLAND.

Hörnum Lighthouse.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 12.07.2007.
Face value: 55 Euro cents.
Design: Johannes Graf (b. 1960).
Printed by Bagel Security-Print GmbH & Co. KG, Düsseldorf.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 8,320,000 copies.
Size: 35 x 35 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 3514.
- Michel No. 2613.
- Scott No. 2448.
- StampWorld No. 2453.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 3487.
- Unificato No. 2445.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2438.

Hörnum (Söl’ring Frisian: Hörnem; Danish: Hørnum) is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein State. It is located on the southern headland of the island of Sylt. According to the census of December 31, 2020, its population was 917 people. The 33.5 meter high lighthouse, built in 1907, was also used as a school between 1918 and 1930. In both the first and second world wars Hörnum was considered a strategic location: in 1914 the first military barracks were built , and in the mid-1930s the Luftwaffe established a naval air station in the town, causing the population to increase markedly. In the 1970s, the development of tourism began and the military use of the island was terminated.