Baitugang Fort

Baitugang Fort

The Baitugang Fort site is located at Baitugang, Xiazhuang village, about 40 meters above sea level, in the plant area of 4801 Changzhou factory, Huangpu, Guangzhou. Baitugang fort, baihegang fort, butterfly fort, dapodai fort, new Xigang fort, old Xigang fort and four seam Fort constitute Changzhou fort. It was a series of defensive fort built during the second Opium War.

brief introduction

The Baitugang Fort site is located at Baitugang, Xiazhuang village, about 40 meters above sea level, in the plant area of 4801 Changzhou factory, Huangpu, Guangzhou. There are two battery, two guns, one of which is 6.35 meters in diameter, the ammunition depot area is 3.2 x 3.3 meters, the Bingyong dormitory is a parallelogram, the roadway is 1.2 meters wide, the wall thickness is 1.45 meters, and the entrance door is 2.5 meters high. Now some of them are completely preserved and open to the public.

characteristic

Baitugang fort is a round open-air platform with a diameter of about five or six meters. It is built of granite. A huge iron gun is displayed in the middle of the fort. It is about one person high and three or four meters long, but its body is full of "wrinkles".

The gun was imitated in 1996. The original gun was manufactured by Krupp factory in 1883. In the autumn of 1938, the Japanese occupied Changzhou and was dismantled. The original Baitugang fort has two gun positions and two guns, one of which is 6.35 meters in diameter. The Bingyong dormitory is a parallelogram. The tunnel is 1.2 meters wide, 2 meters high and 1.45 meters thick. There is a power house at the foot of the mountain and 16 searchlights on the fort.

effect

Baitugang fort, baihegang fort, butterfly fort, dapodai fort, new Xigang fort, old Xigang fort and four seam Fort constitute Changzhou fort. It was a series of defensive fort built during the second Opium War.

Address: No.70 Jinzhou North Road, Changzhou Island, Huangpu District, Guangzhou

Longitude: 113.43154

Latitude: 23.084141

Ticket information: free.

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