Luzhou District
Luzhou (Chinese芦洲 区, pinyin Luzhou Qū, PEH oē - jī Lô • - chiu ) is a district of the city of New Taipei City in northern Taiwan, Republic of China. With an area of approximately 7.4 km ², it is the second smallest district of the city, at the same time is the densely built Luzhou the county with the second highest population density of New Taipei.
Location
Luzhou is a centrally located district on the bank of Tamsui River. It is bounded on the west and south of the neighboring districts Wugu and Sanchong, and north and east by lying across the river district of Shilin of Taipei City. Due to their low position on the riverbank were Luzhou and its neighboring district Sanchong in the past, especially when typhoons regularly hit by floods, a situation that has improved significantly after application of a flood relief channel on the western edge of the districts in 1984. Since the completion of the canal districts Luzhou and Sanchong now be on one of these and the Tamsui River enclosed "island".
Luzhou is connected to the Taipeher underground network.
History and Sights
Because of the deposits due to the regular flooding by the Tamsui River fertile, suitable for farming soil was formed. After the reclamation of the area by Chinese settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries Luzhou was therefore influenced for a long time rural. With the conversion of Taipei into a city and the onset of industrialization in Taiwan during the Japanese rule also changed the character of the adjacent Luzhous. Factories, office buildings and multi-storey residential buildings,, also Luzhou became more and more of an inhabited by commuters satellite settlement of the capital Taipei. End of the 20th century, the population had grown such that Luzhou received the status of a city within the county Taipei. 2010, the site was converted into a district of the emerged from the Taipei County town of New Taipei City.
Other attractions Luzhous counts in addition to some Buddhist and Daoist temples dating from the 19th century, especially the 1903 built in traditional Chinese style property of the Li family, which today is a listed building and is open to the public for inspection.