source: Dongfang morning post
Ji'nan old train station
August 1st, Ji'nan old city development investment group announced, will invest 1 billion 500 million yuan repair North Square of JiNan Railway Station was built, including the old railway station demolished 21 years ago and the baggage compartment. Morning Post reporter right from Ji'nan
"Ji'nan regretted!" Yongjian, a Ji'nan literary and historical expert, commented on the decision to rebuild the old railway station in Ji'nan.
in August 1st this year, the Ji'nan old city development investment group announced that it would invest 1 billion 500 million yuan in the construction of the JiNan Railway Station North Square, including the old railway station which was demolished 21 years ago and the private house.
in 1992, the Ji'nan Railway Bureau demolished the JiNan Railway Station built by the German people in 1904 in order to expand the station, despite the opposition of experts and scholars. At present, the reconstruction plan has not yet been completed. Ji'nan officials say the old railway station of Ji'nan will be "authentic" before the public. The information of
reconstruction of Ji'nan old railway station has brought up memories of a generation of Jinan people, and has also aroused criticism from some experts in the construction industry. "Stupid, stupid." "The original site has been destroyed, the building materials and technology have changed, and the drawings have not yet been found. The architectural style is not a Gothic architecture, but a Germanic style. How can it be restored to the original flavor," a professor who did not want to disclose the name of the Shandong provincial University of architecture said to the morning newspaper reporter. "
" but reconstruction is not meaningless. The greatest significance of reconstruction is to warn people, we have treated our history with a wrong attitude, which is the monument to our disgrace. " Li Ming, director of the Ji'nan Institute of archaeology, said.
[b] old railway station's remnants [/b]
noon time, out of JiNan Railway Station, is a busy construction scene. The workers wearing helmets on the scaffolding sweat sweaty. The outdoor temperature of JiNan Railway Station in August 4th exceeded 35 degrees Celsius.
standing at the South Square of the railway station, looking for a four week trip, almost no trace of the old train station in Ji'nan could be found. The building on the south side of the train station blocked the line of sight. Like other cities, on both sides of the railway station square, a group of elderly people greeted pedestrians in a sign, "temporary rest, air conditioning in the guesthouse."
go down the street from front street to the first turn left. It's an old house: the top, the red tile, the huge pillar, the chimneys of several fireplace, the wall creeping up on the wall... On the wall, the black nameplate has two interpretations in Chinese and English: the Ji'nan Railway Bureau Industrial Development Company, the European classical architecture on both sides was built in September 1904. It belongs to the affiliated building of Jiaoji and Jinpu line Ji'nan station... More than 100 years ago, it has been listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Ji'nan.
there are not many passers to pay attention to the words on the nameplate. There is a flower bed in the European courtyard, and a huge stone is placed in the middle of the flower bed. The doorman blocked reporters' photos. "Here is the office building. We can't take pictures."
after a reporter's inquiry, the landlord of the small shop selling drinks at the side of the yard pointed to the railway building in the distance and said, "that's the old train station in Ji'nan." Now, it is actually the place where JiNan Railway Station is leaving.
the truth of Ji'nan old railway station can only be seen from picture books or old photos.
at the Ji'nan Institute of archaeology, Li Ming, director of the Institute of archaeology, transferred from a computer to a picture of the old train station in Ji'nan that year. On the rail, a man was sitting on a rail car, wearing a hat, a suit, a pair of leather shoes, and a braid of the Qing Dynasty with four Chinese workers behind him. According to statistics, the Westerners on the railcar are the designers of the old railway station in Ji'nan - German architect Herman Fisher. At that time, the railway station had not yet been renovated. A hard worker before the station pushed the wheelbarrow with his bare arms.
[b] railway and Ji'nan [/b]
the archival data found by the morning newspaper reporter showed that the Jinpu railway and Jiaoji railway had not been rendezvous. The Jiaoji railway was first built on the Jinpu railway, and the JiNan Railway Station was a station on the Jinpu line. During the period of the Republic of China, the Japanese took over the JiNan Railway Station and merged the two railway stations into one.
Mr. Yong Jian, a special member of the Committee of the Ji'nan Municipal Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), told the morning newspaper that "Hermann Fisher came to Ji'nan in 1908, 24 years old, and an architect who has just graduated from the German University of hill and forthouse, and has no fame in Germany." It was the year that the Qing government signed a loan contract with Britain and Germany and began to build Jin Pu railway, borrowing 5 million pounds.
from the Ji'nan railway Shi Li Li, we can see the enthusiasm of the Germans in the construction of the railway. The archival documents show that in 1851 and 1864, in order to suppress the Taiping Heavenly movement and transport food, the Qing government had proposed a railway line for the construction of Tianjin to Zhenjiang in Jiangsu, but Britain and Germany were involved in railway loan rights. The Germans stopped the construction of the railway, because the railway would affect the "Jiaoji Railway", so it would not allow the railway line to pass through Shandong province until the Qing government agreed to provide some loans and construction of the Jinpu railway by Germany.
Ji'nan old railway station was once the largest railway station in Asia, and it was listed as the first station in the Far East by the "Far East travel" published by the Federal Republic of Germany after the war.
"Ji'nan old railway station has a historical significance far beyond the building itself, which has affected the development of Ji'nan city." Li Ming, director of the Ji'nan Archaeological Research Institute, said in an interview with the Morning Post reporter, "the core factor of the soul of architecture is the historical carrier. The old railway station in Ji'nan witnessed the change of the Qing government to the Republic of China, the Japanese military railway during the war of resistance against Japan, and the history after the founding of new China. It is a "three-dimensional history" that can be touched.
in the late Qing Dynasty, Ji'nan opened its own ports, and Western merchants and Chinese began to join forces. Li Ming launched a map in his office. "All the way, from two roads to ten roads are all left behind after the opening of Ji'nan. The train station was on the way, when the train got to the port area at most 20 minutes, when the main vehicle was bicycle. There is a telegraph office and a bank that have been built along two routes and then built. At that time, the poor depended on railways and slowly formed a unique slum area in the north of the railway - Official camping, and some factories that were easy to recruit.
[b] was dismantled in the dispute [/b]
50 thousand people per day at JiNan Railway Station and 3000 people per year. A staff member of the JiNan Railway Station told the morning newspaper reporter that with the rapid economic development and rapid population flow, the railway transportation pressure began to increase compared with the civil aviation and highway. At that time, the railway hub, including Zhengzhou and Xi'an, began to expand.
"the whole railway station square is all human. If the Spring Rush is at its peak, the square will not move at all." A peddler who claimed to have set up a stall in JiNan Railway Station for nearly 30 years.
under this background, by the end of 1991, the former Ministry of Railways approved the establishment of Ji'nan new passenger station. The old train station in Ji'nan was dismantled in July 1992. In the same year, the JiNan Railway Station was built on the site. "
" in 1990s, the pursuit of modernization and the exclusion of capitalism was a serious trend of thought, when the rulers had a strong 'national self-esteem'. A member of an expert group at the expansion of the JiNan Railway Station, who did not want to be named, told the morning newspaper reporter that an official in Ji'nan said the old railway station was a symbol of colonialism, and it would recall the years of bullying of the Chinese people.
the author of "Shandong College of Construction Engineering professor Zhang Runwu", the author of "the Ji'nan old fire station dismantling" in the 2 issue of design art in 2000, also quoted the author as the author of "Professor Zhang Runwu of the Shandong College of Construction Engineering". The article also said: "(the official) even said what: 'the green roof of the bell tower (the top of the tower) was like a helmet of the Hitler army, what was it good for?' the officer's standpoint has played an important role in the demolition of the building, of course."
"many experts and scholars opposed the demolition of the old railway station." The unnamed expert member said he had advised the Shandong provincial government and the Ji'nan railway administration to retain the old Ji'nan railway station, but eventually failed to change the decision of the demolition.
publicly reported that the former deputy director of the Ji'nan Railway Bureau and the commander of the command department of the reconstruction and supporting engineering of the southern railway station, Yao Guanghong, participated in the reform project in 1992. He also heard some different opinions when he followed the instructions of his superior to demolish the old railway station.
photographer Jing Qiang photographed the moment when the old railway station in Ji'nan was demolished. "Our generation is all over the world, so we feel so deeply. History distorts human souls, and one day it will be regretted that the old train station in Ji'nan is also the same. Jing Qiang said that when he looked at the workers and lifted the hammer to the wall of the old railway station, he pressed the shutter with tears. "
" the old train station is built very strong, and because it is too close to the train road, can not use large machinery, can only be manually removed, so it took about 1 months of time to dismantle. " Yao Guanghong described the scene of the dismantling at that time. "The old railway station building itself was well protected. The building of the bell tower was very fine and sturdy. Many people did not know that many parts of the bell tower were not used in steel, but the rail, and the quality of the stone was very good, so it was particularly difficult to remove."
before the demolition of the old railway station in Ji'nan, there was a lack of amulet. "It is not included in the lowest level of cultural relics protection units." Jing Qiang told the morning newspaper reporter.
was confirmed by Li Ming, director of Ji'nan Archaeology Institute. During the second cultural relics census, Li Ming photographed and archived two old railway stations in Ji'nan. "
" modern architecture is rarely included in the protection of cultural relics, which is the characteristic of that era, but the cultural and insurance units are also difficult to prevent the pace of municipal construction, and some cultural relics have disappeared in recent years. " Li Ming has been engaged in cultural relics protection for most of his life.
at 14 hours in June 8, 1995, the renovation and expansion project of Ji'nan new passenger station with a national investment of 390 million yuan was completed and opened to traffic.
[b] reconstruction has not completed the planning of [/b]
2010, in Ji'nan city "two meetings", then the deputy general manager of the Ji'nan four construction group, vice president of the Political Consultative Conference Cui Anyuan put forward the proposal to rebuild the old railway station in Ji'nan.
in 2012, 11 people, such as the representative of the Ji'nan Municipal People's Congress and the director of the urban and rural construction commission of the Tianqiao District, submitted the bill to speed up the construction of the north square of the railway station and the reconstruction of the original bell tower, and called for the reconstruction of the old railway station in Ji'nan as soon as possible.
for this, the Ji'nan municipal government replied that Ji'nan's old train station reconstruction plan would be seriously considered. The voice of
rebuilding the old railway station reached a climax in 2012. A popular local story says, "Hermann Fisher's son came to Ji'nan in 1992 to repair the old train station, but saw the train station being dismantled and left." But the story was finally falsified. When Hermann Fisher's granddaughter came to China for the first time in late 2012, he said Herman's descendants had never been to Ji'nan to repair the old railway station.
in August 2nd of this year, the news of rebuilding the old railway station in Ji'nan was reported again. Ji'nan old city development investment group announced that it will invest 1 billion 500 million yuan in the construction of the north square of JiNan Railway Station, including the bell tower, station house and room of the old railway station, which was demolished 21 years ago. A person in charge of the Ji'nan Municipal Planning Bureau said in an interview with the Morning Post reporter that the blueprint design of the redevelopment has not been completed and the planning plan is being improved.
although many people in Ji'nan were interviewed by local media, they said they were looking forward to seeing the old railway station again, but some of the experts who had tried to oppose the demolition of the old railway station in Ji'nan once again stood on the opposition. "The people who put forward the restoration were mistaken in the style of the building. This is not a Gothic architecture. How can we rebuild an old railway station with original flavor?" "The site has been damaged, the construction materials and processes have changed, and the drawings have not been found yet. This is the difficulty of rebuilding the old railway station in Ji'nan. "
Li Ming also expressed his view, "even if there was a drawing, the old train station could not be restored to the past, because the builder's attitude towards the building itself has changed." "The ancient builder used the simplest process to make a complex building, and the modern man made a simple building with a complex process, and the 'soul' was different." Li Ming believes that it is impossible to make "original" architecture.