Type Former fort Opened 1912 | Opening 1912 | |
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Location Jianshi, Hsinchu County, Taiwan | ||
The Tapung Old Fort or Lidonsan Fort (Chinese: 李崠古堡; pinyin: Dàodōng Shūyuàn) is a former fort in Jianshi Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
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History
The fort was built by the Japanese in 1912 to protect themselves from the aborigines. Later in that year, two Atayal tribes united to fight the Japanese where they attacked the fort during a typhoon. The fort was defeated and a year later the Japanese counter-attacked the tribes. The Japanese then later rebuilt and reinforced the fort.
Architecture
The fort was built on a hill with 278 meters high in a quadrangle shape with 8 meters in length and 6 meters in width. It has bastions on the eastern and western sides of the fort as defense measure. The four walls surrounding the fort has 31 loopholes. The walls were made from armored-concrete and clay and the interior side has buttress pillar to further reinforce the structure.