Welcome Hotel

Located at the southern foot of Taiwu mountain, the "Welcome Hotel" was opened in 1980. It is a tunnel hotel for the Ministry of financial defense to receive foreign guests. It was named by Jiang Jingguo, including former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and famous artists such as Teresa Teng, Carrie Bai and Feng Feifei. They all stayed there, so they won the reputation of "underground Hilton".

Welcome Hotel

The Welcome Hotel (the former site of German governor building in Qingdao) is located at the south foot of signal mountain,

It is a German castle style building with European royal style. It was built from October 1905 to October 1907. It was designed by German architect marke and supervised by strassel. Because it was the official residence of the governor after the German occupation of jiaoao. Therefore, it is commonly known as "governor building".

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Although the governor building was completed very quickly, the first governor, thorpal, did not live in it for a few days. Why? Because the construction cost of the building was too large, reaching nearly 1 million marks. So he was impeached by Parliament when he went back. He was replaced by a new governor.

Welcome hotel is a German castle style building with European royal style. Its elegant shape, luxurious decoration, beautiful outline and lines, and magnificent color still rank in the forefront of China's single villa buildings. As a house of this style built at the beginning of the 20th century, it is rare in Europe and even Germany. The building is magnificent, with a construction area of 4083 square meters, a height of 30 meters, and a thickness of more than 60 cm. The exterior wall is yellow, and some parts are decorated with granite stone. The stone surface is rough and simple. The main door wall is decorated with light green and light gray granite, and the top stone is carved with beautiful patterns. It is exquisite in the extensive. The top of the building is paved with beige tube tile, blue fish scale tile and green ox tongue tile, which makes the building more exquisite and unique.

Architectural structure

The hotel building has one floor underground and three floors above the ground, with a total construction area of more than 4000 square meters. It is a brick, stone, steel and wood structure, a classical German imperial palace courtyard building. The roof design is rich and varied, the wall body is decorated with a large number of stone materials, stone carvings, pillar style veranda, stone corner and cornice, and translucent wood wall, which make the building unique and magnificent, and become a wonderful flower of modern architecture in Qingdao. The building is divided into four floors, with a total of 30 rooms. The ground floor is a semi underground room, which used to be the governor's servant and dining room. It is the second floor from the west gate, which is used to be called the first floor. It is composed of a hall, a middle hall, a hall, a conference room, a dance hall, a dining room and a flower house. The hall is 9 meters high, with gorgeous chandeliers hanging on the top. The walls of the hall are decorated with bronze carvings and oil paintings, and the lower part of the wall is surrounded by a brown guard board. At one corner of the wall is a fireplace inlaid with green jade, and at the other corner is an old German tripod piano. On the wall of the hall is a clock designed by Johann Hans, a famous German clock designer. One of its characteristics is that when a small time is four times, every moment sounds music, and the whole time is full Five o'clock is the clock. The whole hall is full of simple and strong Western sentiment. The third floor, conventionally known as the second floor, used to be the governor's bedroom and office. As the guest house used to be a place for the government to receive distinguished guests, it was not damaged during the "Cultural Revolution". Most of the buildings remained the original appearance, and the furniture inside were all original German products. This is a furniture shop in Germany that used to produce furniture for the royal nobles. It is said that it is still in existence, and it is compiled by Benz company

Historical evolution

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This building has gone through vicissitudes for nearly a hundred years and has changed owners several times. In November 1914, when Japan and Germany were at war, the German garrison in Qingdao was defeated and left. This place became the residence of successive Japanese garrison commanders in Qingdao. In December 1922, China regained its sovereignty, and this place was the official residence of the general office of the governor of jiaoao commercial port, and then the official residence of successive KMT mayors in Qingdao. After Shen Honglie became mayor in 1932, he no longer stayed here, which was only used to receive guests. In 1934, this place was officially named as "Yingying" From 1938 to 1945, the Japanese army occupied Qingdao for the second time, which was called "International Club"; after the surrender of the Japanese army, it was changed to "Welcome Hotel".

After liberation, as a guest house received by the government, the guest house had received many national leaders and distinguished guests. From July 12 to August 12, 1957, Chairman Mao Zedong lived in Qingdao with his wife Jiang Qing and his daughters Li Na and Li min. In the room where the governor lived, he also lived in leaders such as Jiang Jingguo, Xie Hu, Ho Chi Minh, Prince Sihanouk and former Australian Prime Minister hill.

From June 2, 1949, after the liberation of Qingdao to 1992, the Welcome Hotel became a hotel for party and state leaders and international guests of Qingdao Municipal People's government. Mao Zedong, Chen Yun and other international friends, such as Ho Chi Minh, Xie Hu, Sihanouk and hill, all stayed here.

On May 1, 1999, the Qingdao municipal government opened the guest house as a tourist attraction to tourists at home and abroad, and thus it has a "nickname" - the former site of German style official residence in Qingdao.

The mysterious Qingdao guest house Qingdao "guest house", a European style building, was once the German governor's office in Qingdao. In the past, Yuan Shikai stayed many times; Wang Jingwei held a secret meeting to set up a traitor government here; warlord zhang Zongchang was plotted in this hall, which is called "villain house". Today, we open the door to interpret its little-known history

Internal organization

With the hustle and bustle of people, tracking the happy footprints, through the winding asphalt road, we came to the south foot of Signal Mountain and knocked on the door of Qingdao "Welcome Hotel". The door is open! From the gate overflowed a bunch of green flowers, full of wonderful colors, calling people to understand it and know it.

The spacious hall is decorated with elegance and magnificence. All kinds of columns, all kinds of furniture, exquisite carving, lamps and lanterns are elegant, and the whole building is unique. In such a Western-style elegant environment, people can't help but think of the long history. This famous modern Western Castle style palace building in the Far East has stood for more than 100 years. As the German governor's residence in Qingdao, it has experienced the bloody wind and rain of history and the change of rulers.

Development history

In Qingdao archives, the reporter saw the records and photos of that time in the old yellow materials: Qingdao used to be a small fishing village, because of its superior natural geographical environment and natural harbor, it became a colony contested by imperialism. From the establishment of Qingdao City in 1891 to the early colonial development of Germany in 1897, the governor's residence was built near XiaoYushan Park in Qingdao, and then at the foot of Qingdao signal mountain. It was designed by the famous German architect racharowitz at that time. He reduced the original size of the palace in Berlin by 10 times and imitated it. The whole project takes 5 years. The technological requirements are very strict. Before and after the construction, four capitalist companies in Qingdao undertook the construction, all of which were eliminated because of the high technical requirements. According to the older generation in Qingdao, as long as the German supervisor could insert a shaving blade into the wooden construction joints, even if they were not qualified, they would use an axe to cut them off and make them again. It can be seen that the technological requirements were harsh at that time. So far a century, the entire hotel, no wooden furniture due to quality problems cracks and deformation.

The German governor's residence in Qingdao, completed in 1908, has a main building of 4000 square meters. Apart from living rooms, there are large and small living rooms, study rooms, banquet halls and indoor gardens. At that time, the luxury of its buildings and facilities was much better than that of the official residences of the governors of Hong Kong and Macao. Its exterior was decorated with magnificent reliefs and sculptures, which were of great artistic value. Although there is no wall around the governor's residence, there are signs in German and Chinese: "private territory, no entry". On October 20 of this year, governor Yuan Shikai came to Qingdao for a visit. Governor thorber went to the railway station to greet him. Yuan Shikai went to his official residence for a visit. Thorber hosted a banquet for Yuan Shikai, which left a deep impression on Yuan Shikai. Later, when he became president, he praised the official residence of German governor in Qingdao at a banquet and threatened to build a German governor's residence in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing What kind of European architecture for him to enjoy. Yuan Shikai was the first senior Chinese official to be welcomed by the German governor's residence in Qingdao in modern history.

After graduating from German University, he joined the Navy, from sergeant to staff officer. In 1908, he came to Qingdao as the German chief of staff. After his departure, thorber was promoted to the then governor of jiaoao. He lived in the mansion with his wife and children. In 1914, the Allied forces of Japan and Britain began to attack Qingdao. After a fierce battle, the isolated German army in Qingdao was defeated. On behalf of the German army, vadek surrendered and left the official residence. His family was repatriated. However, the German emperor did not hold himself responsible for his defeat. Instead, he gave him a National Medal of honor for his fighting efforts.

In 1922, the Chinese national government took back Qingdao, and at the same time took back the former German governor's residence as Japan's "chief inspector of jiaoao". In 1925, Bi Shucheng, then commander of the Fengxi Bohai fleet and garrison envoy of Jiaodong garrison, entered Qingdao and lived in the building with his wife and concubines. His wife and four concubines live on the second floor, one room for each, each with a maid. In 1926, when the Northern Expedition broke out, the Northern Expedition army went north and Bi Shucheng entered

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