Hohe Weg Lighthouse, Offshore lighthouse on the Hohe Weg sandbank in the North Sea near Bremerhaven, Germany

The Hohe Weg Lighthouse is a 36-metre octagonal tower of hard-burnt brick, its lower section exposed brown masonry and its upper shaft clad in red-painted aluminium panels. A white gallery with a red railing surrounds the green steel lantern, and a red-railed observation deck wraps the base of the shaft. It stands on the sandbank Hohe Weg, 25 km northwest of Bremerhaven and 3 km east of the bird island Mellum.

A 1757 chart already marks a signal on the Hohe Weg sandbank; in 1783 the wooden Bremer Bake replaced it. Bremen commissioned Jacobus Johannes van Ronzelen in 1854, and the tower entered service on 1 December 1856. Work was possible only at low tide, with materials and up to 70 workers' quarters set on 120 piles driven 4.5 m into the mud.

The German postal service issued a commemorative 55-cent stamp featuring the lighthouse in 2006 to mark its 150th year of maritime service.

The tower stands on the sandbank Hohe Weg, 25 km northwest of Bremerhaven and 3 km east of the bird island Mellum; at high tide it is completely surrounded by water, and only at low tide does the sandbank fall dry. Work on the structure was possible only at low tide, and the same holds for any approach today. The rooms inside can be used by mudflat hikers caught by the rising tide.

The tower's interior holds a cistern, storage rooms and several rooms that housed up to four lighthouse keepers until 1973. Because of its offshore position, these rooms can still be used by walkers caught out on the flats by the tide.