The Republic of Poland (Polska in Polish) is located to the south of the Baltic Sea between Germany and Belarus. Poland has a long history but in the last decades of the 1700s it lost its independence, partitioned in several stages by its then-neighbors Prussia, Russia, and Austria. Following World War I the 1919 Treaty of Versailles restored Poland's independence but gave the country only a small section of coastline at Gdynia. At the end of World War II in 1945 Poland's borders were shifted westward, reducing the size of the country but granting it a substantial coastline removed from the defeated Germany. Since 1945 the coast line of Poland has stretched from Świnoujście in the west to Gdańsk Bay in the east. Poland has at least 26 lighthouses on its Baltic coast and also many lighthouses on the inland waterway that extends from Świnoujście to Szczecin. This page lists the lighthouses of the Świnoujście area and the northern portion of the waterway leading to Szczecin. The southern portion of the waterway is covered by the Odra River page and the remaining Baltic lighthouses are listed on the Poland's Baltic Coast page. Poland is divided into 16 provinces called voivodeships (województwa), and the voivodeships are subdivided into powiats (counties) and gminas (municipalities). All the lighthouses of this page are in the voivodeship of West Pomerania (Zachodniopomorskie). West Pomerania became part of Prussia in 1720 and thus part of the German Empire when it was formed in 1871. As a result nearly all the lighthouses in the region were built under German administration. The German names of these lighthouses are shown in curly brackets {}. In Polish a lighthouse is a "sea lantern," latarnia morska, plural latarnie morskie. Wyspa is an island, płycizna is a shoal, zatoka is a bay, zalew is a lagoon, cieśnina is a strait, rzeka is a river, falochron is a breakwater, and molo is a pier. The Baltic Sea is called the Morze Bałtyckie in Polish. Active Polish lighthouses are operated by the regional Maritime Office (Urząd Morski). Previously there were three of these offices, in Szczecin, Słupsk, and Gdynia. In 2020 the Słupsk office was closed and its duties transferred to the Gdynia office. All of the lights on this page are managed by the Szczecin Maritime Office (Urząd Morski w Szczecinie). ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Light List numbers are from volume C of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 116.
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Świnoujście City Lighthouses
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![]() East Mole Light, Świnoujście, August 2016 photo copyright Manfred Schmidt; used by permission |
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![]() Karsibór Range Rear Light, Karsibór Island, September 2022 photo copyright Andreas Köhler; used by permission |
Zalew Szczeciński (Stettiner Haff) Lighthouses
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Kamień County Lighthouses
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Notable faux lighthouses:
Adjoining pages: East: Poland Baltic Coast | South: Odra River | West: Vorpommern
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Posted April 18, 2005. Checked and revised June 9, 2024. Lighthouses: 33. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.