Hallstatt (China)

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Hallstatt in China.

Hallstatt ( Chinese  五矿 · 哈施塔特 , Pinyin Wǔ Kuàng Hāshītǎtè ) is a housing estate in the city of Luoyangzhen in the Boluo district in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong . The core of the housing estate is modeled after the center of Hallstatt in Austria.

The area was built by the mining company China Minmetals for over 900 million US dollars. The apartments in the complex are mostly still under construction and are for sale. The center of the area contains a copy of the church, the fountain and various objects from the original Hallstatt in Austria.

Blueprint Austria

The original in Austria

The owner of the Seehotel Grüner Baum in Hallstatt, Monika Wenger, was the first person from Hallstatt to find out about the plans and communicated them to the public. This led to worldwide reporting and soon afterwards to a very strong increase in the number of tourists in Hallstatt, Austria. The number of Chinese tourists there also increased in the following years.

While parts of the population of Hallstatt viewed the Chinese plans with skepticism, Mayor Alexander Scheutz said he saw the project as an opportunity for tourism in the original Hallstatt. He was personally present for the opening ceremony in 2012 and signed an agreement for cultural exchange.

This copy in China, two hours by car north of Hong Kong , is symmetrically mirrored to its original in Austria, 8881 km away. Even the manhole covers bear inscriptions from their models. The copy of the church was initially used as a showroom for real estate agents. There is an English telephone booth in the market square .

Similar projects in China

The construction of Hallstatt is part of a trend in China to emulate or rebuild other parts of the world. While this is the only example where an entire city center has been replicated, there are many similar places in China. Other examples include replicas of the Eiffel Tower and several copies of European castles in Chongqing . Many of these copies are housing for the more affluent Chinese people. The planned cities One City and Nine Towns in Shanghai, designed by western architects, had a lot of vacancy after construction. The resort of Jackson Hole (China) , which is based on Jackson (Wyoming) - also the hometown of the USA in the Hebei region outside Beijing, as well as Ju Jun in northern Beijing , based on Orange County (California), were more in demand. A European street and some replicas of Venice can also be found in shopping centers.

Artistic processing

The Austrian artist Norbert Artner photographed the two Hallstatters in the HALLSTATT REVISITED project .

Broadcast reports

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silke Ballweg / haet: Stolen Buildings: How China Clones Western Cities. September 3, 2013, accessed February 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Heinz Dietl: There are two of the most beautiful places in the world. General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , July 7, 2012, accessed on October 2, 2018 .
  3. ^ Johanna Pfund: Too beautiful for this world. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 22, 2017, accessed on October 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Often photographed, copied once, never achieved. Brandwork-Studios GmbH, accessed on October 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ A Real Copy of Austria in China , New York Times , Didi Kirsten Dadlow, July 25, 2012, accessed October 6, 2018
  6. ↑ a b c China's Cloned European Villages and Cities. In: Die Welt Online. October 22, 2015, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  7. ^ Hallstatt double. China inaugurates a reconstructed Alpine village. In: Der Spiegel Online. June 2, 2012, accessed February 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ China's Fake Cities , ProSieben - Galileo , episode 33, season 2015 from February 2, 2015 (YouTube)
  9. ↑ Exclusive Talk - With Mayor Alexander Scheutz (Hallstatt) , Brandwork Studios. Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. 
  10. ↑ https://orf.at/stories/3038441/ , Österreichischer Rundfunk , Philip Pfleger, October 1, 2018, accessed on October 6, 2018
  11. ^ Hallstatt double. China inaugurates a reconstructed Alpine village. In: Der Spiegel Online. June 2, 2012, accessed February 8, 2017 .
  12. ↑ China's Fake Cities , ProSieben - Galileo , episode 33, season 2015 from February 2, 2015 (YouTube)
  13. ↑ aec.at: HALLSTATT REVISITED ; Retrieved April 27, 2017
  14. ↑ flickriver.com: Hallstatt Revisited, Norbert Artner in cooperation with Thomas Macho and Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber ; Retrieved April 27, 2017

Coordinates: 23 ° 10 ′ 39 ″  N , 114 ° 19 ′ 35 ″  E