踏溯台南

踏溯台南

文學院 通識教育課程

Tavocan and the Town of Hills

Route Introduction

 

Hsinhua Old Street

    In 1920, after the establishment of the Xinhua County Office in Tainan Prefecture, the "Urban Correction" project was carried out and the present-day Zhongzheng Road was widened from 6 meters wide to 12 meters wide.

   In 1921, cloth merchant Lin Maoji spent 3,000 yen and hired a craftsman nicknamed "Ler Ka Shu-ah" to build a Western-style building (now No. 435 Zhongzheng Road), which made neighboring merchants to imitate and follow suit, and in around 1926, the west side of present-day Zhongzheng Road was entirely converted into Western-style buildings. The eastern-side street houses were demolished in 1937 when the road was widened to build a drainage ditch.

  Later, in 1995, the Xinhua Town Office launched an urban renovation plan to widen Zhongshan Road from 12 meters to 15 meters, thus demolishing the original street houses. Later, Professor Wang, Ming-heng of architecture at Cheng Kung University, took the lead in initiating the slogan of preserving the old street, and finally, on January 25, 1999, the "Public Hearing on the Development, Preser vation and Widening Research and Business on the Old Streets" decided to preserve the Zhongzheng Road street houses with 22 households in favor of preservation, 5 households against, and 8 void votes. This is an important case for promoting the preservation of regional cultural assets for local people.
 
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