Sathon District
Sathon ( Thai: สาทร, also Sathorn ) is one of the 50 districts ( Khet ) of Bangkok, capital of Thailand. Sathon is located in the southern section of downtown south of Sathon Road. Here is the seat of the German and the Austrian Embassy.
Geography
Sathon is bounded on the north by the Khlong Sathon ( Sathon - channel) and Rama IV Road ( Thanon Phra Ram 4), to the east by Chalerm Maha Nakhon Expressway and the Thanon Yen Akkard, in the south of several small streets like Thanon Chan, Thanon Khlong Phai Ngoen and from Kruai ( Kruai channel). The Chao Phraya River forms the western boundary of the district.
The neighboring districts are from clockwise from the north: Bang Rak, Pathum Wan, Khlong Toei, Yan Nawa, Bang Kho Laem, and Khlong San ( on the opposite bank of the Chao Phraya River ).
History
Sathon formerly belonged to the district of Yan Nawa. As this was quite large and had many inhabitants, a county Office of Yan Nawa was established on 9 March 1989 initially to manage three of the Kwaeng of Yan Nawa. But shortly thereafter, on 9 November 1989 it became the independent District Sathon.
The name was taken from the Sathon Road and Khlong Sathon. Khlong Sathon was from a Chinese entrepreneur named " Poh Yom " (Mr. Yom ) dug in 1888, used to connect the Chao Phraya River to Khlong Hua Lamphong ( filled today to make room for the Thanon Rama IV). At that time, the channel still " Khlong Poh Yom " was called after its designer. It was not until King Chulalongkorn him the title Luang Sathon Racha Yuk ( หลวง สาทร ราชา ยุกต์ ) awarded, the Khlong got its present name. First were giving trees, of which one can hardly imagine something today after the Sathon Road was concreted on both sides of the channel at its shady banks.
Thanon Sathon
The Thanon Sathon ( Sathon Road, in English usage " Sathon Road " or " Satorn Road " ) is one of the main roads in Bangkok. It consists of the Thanon Sathon Nuea (North Sathon Road, belongs to the district Bang Rak ) and Thanon Sathon Tai (South Sathon Road, part of the Khet Sathon ). In the midst of today is hardly the Khlong Sathon ( Sathon - channel) to identify. Is the Taksin bridge over the Chao Phraya River, but which is often referred to as Sathon Bridge At its western end. So the Sathon Road is an important road connecting the modern Bangkok on the eastern banks of the Chao Phraya River and some " down to earth " Thonburi on the west bank.
The Silom Line of the Bangkok Skytrain operates over a large part of Sathon Road to Saphan Taksin Station to Taksin Bridge since 2009 and continue over the river bridge to Thonburi.
The intersection of Sathon with the Thanon Narathiwat Racha Nakarin southbound will be expanded in recent years to a business district with many new office towers. Other major construction projects are planned.
Attractions
- Wat Yan Nawa ( วัด ยานนาวา ), is an ancient temple ( wat ) in the Ayutthaya period. Modeled by its peculiar chedi, a Chinese junk, the temple is the most famous in the Sathon district. Since the original junks are barely visible today, give them a kind of monument was built by this chedi. In the Kingdom of Ayutthaya was this temple Wat Kok Khwai yet ( วัด คอก ควาย ) during Thonburi and early Rattanakosin period, he was called Wat Kok Krabue ( วัด คอก กระบือ ). The junks chedi and the Viharn was built in the time of King Phra Nang Klao (Rama III. ), At that time also received the temple its present name.
- Soi Wanglee is a small side street ( Soi ) Thanon Charoen Krung for which runs parallel to Wat Yan Nawa to the Chao Phraya River. There was until recently an intact neighborhood, which was grown in decades. Historic Chinese shops and two and three story houses lined this Soi. The owner of the Wat Yan Nawa has decided to demolish most of the part 80 year old homes to build a new hotel. An offer of the inhabitants to restore the houses, was not accepted. On the corner of Charoen Krung, however, still is a restaurant, which had already been a dance hall in the 1950s (see links).
- Wat Don ( วัด ดอน ), another ancient temple, built in 1797 during the reign of King Phra Phutthayotfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ) of immigrants from Tavoy (Myanmar ). It is also located near the Wat Don Cemetery, a cemetery with many Chinese graves.
Traffic
On the northern edge of the district, along Sathon Road, Silom line runs the Skytrain ( BTS). Two stops serve Sathon: Surasak and Saphan Taksin. In the north- eastern corner of the district, at the Rama IV road the station is Lumphini subway (MRT ).
The pier at Sathon Taksin Bridge is the central station of the express boat lines that run north-south direction on the Chao Phraya River and represents a more rapid connection with other parts of the city.
Education
In Sathon, the main campus of Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep, trade school Assumption Commercial College and the Catholic private school Rongrian is St. Louis Sueksa.
Management
The district is divided into three sub-districts ( Kwaeng ):