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In our Miniature Park you can admire an original fog horn. During heavy fog it was used to produce a sound to warn ships of shallow water. The sound could be heard over a distance of 20km. See for yourself or better hear for yourself because our fog horn is fully functional and is used daily.

On the opposite sides of the globe, there are two Polish lighthouses, Arctowski and UWE 1

The lighthouse Arctowski was built in 1978 on King George Island and belongs to the local Polish Antarctic station. It is supplied with electricity by a generator and its light shines all the time.

The lighthouse UWE 1 is located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, 1100 km north of the Arctic Circle. It was built in 2006 using oil barrels.

Only in one place you can visit both lighthouses, in our Miniature Park of the Polish Lighthouses in Niechorze.

Our visitors have voted in a poll the most beautiful miniature in our park. The most votes received the Cathedral in Kamień Pomorski, second place went to the lighthouse Kołobrzeg. Third place was shared by the lighthouse Świnoujście and the Bliza in scale 1:1.

Stanisław Mieszkowski - a captain of the Polish Navy in Kolobrzeg. He was sentenced to death in 1952 on false charges. The Supreme Court reversed the judgment and so his reputation was rehabilitated post-mortem.

In 2007 the statue was presented at the lighthouse and since 2012 in our Miniature Park in scale 1:10.

In the news section, we will present regularly from now on interesting facts about the individual lighthouses that you can enjoy all in our Miniature Park.

Today we present the Nowy Port Lighthouse - in Gdańsk and in particular the time ball, of which there are only four exist worldwide.

What exactly is a time ball? With the time ball captains could adjust their ship chronometer accurate to the second, which was back then very important for an accurate determination at sea. The ball was drawn up to half height about 5 minutes before 12 o'clock, 2-3 minutes before 12 o'clock all the way up and at 12 o'clock the ball was dropped. The signal was sent via telegraph from the Royal Observatory in Berlin to Gdansk. The Time Ball weighed 70kg and had a diameter of 1.6 m.

Since 1921, the time ball is no longer in use. A radio station started to broadcast from Gdańsk and also transmitted the accurate time. The time ball was removed in 1929 but remounted in 2008. It is now operated as a tourist attraction three times per day in the summer.

Since a couple of years the "Day of the Lighthouses" is celebrated on the third Sunday in August in Poland. Although in modern navigation lighthouses have a rather secondary importance they still not belong to the past. They are considered maritime monuments and sights of the Polish coast.
All lighthouses of the Polish coast, even the ones that no longer exist, can be seen in one place. In our Miniature Park you will visit the entire coast and all the lighthouses in just 40 minutes.

The small Captains Halinka and Maciej enjoyed their visit to our Miniature Park.

Apoloniusz Łysejko was born in 1946 in Gdynia and served until 1990 in the Polish Navy. He was Director of the Hydrographic Office in Gdynia and is a world-wide recognized authority regarding lighthouses.

Victor Prylucky - author of several books on lighthouses.

During the visit, Mr. Łysejko wrote a dedication in his book for the owner of the park Mr. Marian Piasecki.

After Tomasz Trojanowski had visited our miniatures park, his son Olek built a replica of the lighthouse UWE 1. He only used bottle caps, but it still looks very similar to the original. We look forward to other exhibits.

Velorex - a Czechoslovakian motorized tricycle, of which more than 15,000 copies were produced between 1950 and 1973. The body consisted mostly of a synthetic leather like fabric in order to save cost.