The request for permission of 1818 and the first plans

According to Wikipedia, the first mentions of a lighthouse in Jarosławiec date from 1818, when the need to build one was written about. The application for permission was sent to the ministry on 11 June 1818, but the light shone only twenty years later. In February 1820 a building inspector from Słupsk submitted the first plans, which were not carried out. The next were presented in May 1827, and in October they were analysed by a special commission at the ministry in Berlin. Among its members was Friedrich Schickel, the builder of the lighthouse at Arkona.

The tower that was never lit

Construction began in 1829, 380 metres from the shore. The works were commissioned from a master mason from Sławno, and the steel structure of the lamp was made by the master blacksmith Karol Winneg of Koszalin. The panes for glazing the dome were supplied by the Schickler & Splittgerber manufactory, the same one that filled orders for the lighthouses on Hel and in Neufahrwasser. The tower, circular in plan, of red and glazed brick, was completed in 1832.

It turned out, however, that the lighthouse was too low. From the north-west it was obscured by trees and the roofs of houses, and from the east by a spruce forest. The inhabitants opposed the felling of the forest, and raising the tower was made impossible by the weak walls. In 1835 it was therefore decided to build a new lighthouse. The old one was enlarged and turned into housing for the lighthouse keepers.

The second tower and its light

The new lighthouse is a round tower of red brick, divided by cornices into four storeys, 33.3 m high. A light was first lit in it on 1 July 1838. It was provided by fifteen Argand lamps fed with rapeseed oil, with parabolic reflectors moved from the old lighthouse; the range was 16 nautical miles, from a height of 50.2 m above sea level. In 1878 the Argand lamps were replaced with a Fresnel lens, and in 1912 electric power was introduced.

Wikipedia also mentions a rebuilding of the lighthouse in 1902, without details. The website latarnie.pl describes the tower as thirty metres tall, whereas the technical data in Wikipedia speak of 33.3 m.

After the war: the AGA lamp of 1975

According to Wikipedia, the lighthouse was damaged during the hostilities and began its navigational service in 1946. In 1975 the optical equipment was modernised and an AGA PRB-21 rotating lamp was installed. According to the same entry it works to this day: it consists of four panels of six bulbs each of 600 W and gives light to a distance of 23 nautical miles. The light is group flashing, with a period of 9 seconds.

In 1993 the lighthouse was entered in the heritage register. In 1996 a general renovation was carried out, in which missing bricks in the cornices and walls were replaced and the structure was protected against water and salt. Until the end of March 2020 the lighthouse was administered by the Maritime Office in Słupsk, and since 1 April 2020 by the Maritime Office in Szczecin. According to Wikipedia it is supervised and open to visitors, and from its top a panorama of the village and the surroundings can be seen. The rules of entry should be checked with the manager.

Not far from the lighthouse the Amber Museum in Jarosławiec operates, so the two places are easy to combine in one walk around the village.