Ciaotou sugar factory
The sugar factory Ciaotou (Chinese:橋頭糖廠Qiaotou Tangchang) includes the site of a disused sugar factory in the district Ciaotou the city Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on which now a museum and other recreational facilities are located.
history
The sugar factory in Ciaotou was opened during the Japanese rule over Taiwan in 1901 and continuously expanded in the decades that followed. The background to this was the aspiration of the Japanese to industrialize the cultivation of sugar cane in Taiwan. The Ciaotou factory was Taiwan's first modern sugar refinery . During the Pacific War , the factories were damaged by American air raids. During this time, the sugar factory grounds also served as barracks for the Japanese army. After the end of the Second World War and the withdrawal of the Japanese, all Japanese sugar refineries were combined in the state-owned Taiwan Sugar Company . In 1966, the Xiaogang Sugar Refinery in Kaohsiung City was attached to the Ciaotou factory. The fall in the international sugar price started a downturn in the 1970s, which ultimately led to the complete cessation of sugar production in Ciaotou in June 1999.
Due to the historical significance of the site, the Kaohsiung County government declared the sugar factory a historical monument in 2002. The site became a public park, which was given the status of an open-air museum in 2006 .
Buildings and facilities
In addition to the factory halls that were used for sugar production, there are also former dormitories for workers and employees as well as the former administration building, in which exhibitions on the history of the site are now held. While the wooden structures have almost completely disappeared from the founding period, you can still visit some houses made of bricks and the later concrete buildings. A special attraction is the railway along the tracks originally used to transport sugar cane and sugar, which are now open to tourism.
traffic
The site is connected to the public transport network by a station on the Kaohsiung subway .
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Coordinates: 22 ° 45 ′ 29.9 ″ N , 120 ° 18 ′ 52.9 ″ E