Beitou

Beitou (Chinese北投 区, pinyin Beitou Qū ) is a city district of Taipei. The municipality is very mountainous and is famous for its hot springs.

Overview and Geography

Beitou is the northernmost district of Taipei. In the south and east it borders on the district of Shilin, on the west by the Municipality Danshui in New Taipei City and on the north by Sanzhi and Jinshan.

Beitou covers an area of 56.8216 km ², making it the second largest district in Taipei. 2012 had about 250,000 inhabitants Beitou.

History

During the Japanese rule over Taiwan Beitou was 1920-1941 a village (北投 庄Hokuto shō ) in a circle Shichisei (七星 郡) in the prefecture of Taihoku (Taipei ). 1941, was promoted to a city (北投 街). After the takeover by the Republic of China was assigned to the Taipei County in the status of a municipality (北投 镇, zhen Beitou ). 1968 finally became a district of Taipei City.

Hot Springs

The hot springs were discovered in 1894 by the German sulfur -Kaufmann Ouely. 1896 built a merchant from Osaka the first hotel for hot springs in the area.

Beitou is find the Museum of hot springs (北投 温泉 博物馆, at Tou Wu Wenquan Bó guǎn ), a former public bathhouse Japanese time. It was built on June 17, 1913 and was famous at the time for its architecture of an English country house. On the ground floor, which consists of bricks, there was the public bathroom, first floor in wood construction, a recreation area. In 1923, the then Japanese Crown Prince, later Emperor Hirohito visited the bathroom. After the transfer of Taiwan to the Republic of China in 1945, the bathhouse finally got out of use and fell into disrepair. After the building was discovered in 1994 by a group of teachers and students of a primary school in Beitou, it was restored from 1998. Today, in the museum exhibitions on the history of the hot springs in Beitou, the theory of hot springs, the history of Ketagalan ( the former Native in Taipei) and the discovery of Hokutolit ( A Mineralienart ).

The museum is located in a park in Beitou, through which a river flows starting from the hot source. Adjacent to it there are several hotels that offer private bathrooms, and a public open-air bathroom. Furthermore, there is a public library in timber next to the park.

Traffic

Beitou is the subway in Taipei ( MRT ) on the red Danshui line distance. Right on this line are the stations Guandu, Zhongyi, Fuxinggang, Beitou, Qiyan, Qili'an, Shipai and Mingde. From Beitou station branches off a line from the Xinbeitou station, which makes the hot springs attainable.

By Beitou also lead the provincial roads PH 2a from Jinshan to Taipei, as well as the PH 2b from Taipei to Danshui. The area is also serviced by many bus routes.

History a road between Dadaocheng and Beitou was opened in 1897. 1901, the Beitou Railroad was then opened and built the Beitou Station. In 1916, then a branch line from the Beitou Station to Station was Xinbeitou ( New Beitou ) in order to reach the hot springs better of Taipei. With the establishment of the original MRT railway was a line of the metro.

Gallery

Municipal Library in Beitou

Street scene in Xinbeitou

Entrance area of the museum

Sulfur source