Luotuoshan Lime Kiln Group

A cluster of abandoned lime kilns (石灰窯) can be found in Linyuan, Kaohsiung, scattered along the flank of Luotuoshan (駱駝山), a raised coral-reef ridge named after its camel-hump profile. The kilns burned the area’s coral limestone into quicklime for wall plaster, and later betel nut lime (檳榔灰), until cement displaced the trade. The oldest are thought to date to the early Japanese colonial era. Local historians with the Linyuan Aixiang Association (林園愛鄉協會) have documented well over a dozen across a multi-year field survey and believe more than twenty once operated, with several of the best-preserved surviving precisely because they fall within the restricted perimeter of the Marine Corps Ziyi Base (子儀營區). Proposals to designate the kilns as cultural heritage and fold them into a humanities and ecology tourism route have been raised, but nothing has been formalized.