Quirinus Johan Harder (13 October 1801, in

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– 21 October 1880, in

Vlissingen Vlissingen (; zea, label=Zeelandic, Vlissienge), historically known in English as Flushing, is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the former island of Walcheren. With its strategic l ...

) was a Dutch architect best known for having designed a large number of

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s. He worked as a structural engineer for the Loodswezen, the Dutch organization overseeing all

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s. Harder's lighthouses were made of

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, a new material at the time, which allowed for segmented fabrication and construction.

List of Harder's lighthouses

Eierland Lighthouse The Eierland Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the northernmost tip of the Dutch island of Texel. It is named for the former island Eierland. History The lighthouse was designed by Quirinus Harder and construction began on 25 July 1863. The lighthou ...

(Texel, 1864) * Nieuwe Sluis (1867) *

Scheveningen Lighthouse De Scheveningen Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Scheveningen, Netherlands. It was designed by Quirinus Harder and activated finished in 1875. History In the 16th century Scheveningen had a lighthouse already, and the church collected money from ...

(1875) * Short lighthouse of Westkapelle (1875) *

Lange Jaap Lange Jaap ("Tall Jacob"), also known as Kijkduin Light or Den Helder Light, is an active lighthouse near Fort Kijkduin in Huisduinen, Netherlands. At a height of it is one of the tallest "traditional lighthouses" in the world. For almost a cen ...

(Den Helder, 1877-1878) * Lage vuurtoren van IJmuiden (1878) * Hoge vuurtoren van IJmuiden (1878) *

Bornrif The Ameland Lighthouse, commonly known as Bornrif, is a lighthouse on the Dutch island Ameland, one of the Frisian Islands, on the edge of the North Sea. It was built in 1880 by order of William III of the Netherlands. It was designed by Dutch li ...

(Ameland, 1880-1881) * Den Oever Lighthouse (1884) * Stavoren Lighthouse (1884) *

Vuurduin Vuurduin is a lighthouse on the Dutch island Vlieland. The tower is the top part of the former front light of the leading lights in IJmuiden, designed by Quirinus Harder. The lighthouse was placed on Vlieland in 1909, on top of one of the Vuur ...

(Vlieland, 1909)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Harder, Quirinus 1801 births 1880 deaths Dutch civil engineers Architects from Rotterdam People from Vlissingen 19th-century Dutch architects

List of Harder's lighthouses

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