A traditional climbing kiln (登窯) established in 1954, featuring 19 chambers and 5 chimneys. At its peak in 1977 it produced 360,000 bricks per month before closing in 1989. Registered as a Taitung County Historical Building in 2003. The kiln was damaged by an earthquake that December and subsequently repaired, then severely damaged again by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in September 2022.
Map
Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Academia Sinica Digital Culture Center (中央研究院數位文化中心)
Themes
- Taiwan Brick Industry (台灣磚瓦業)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.