According to the planning of Xuzhou City, the architectural color of Laodongmen Fashion District will be coordinated with the surrounding buildings of Huaihai Road, forming the first fashion leisure area in Jiangsu Province.
The buildings adjacent to the old East Gate include many modern buildings of the last century and have a long history. Together, they witnessed the vicissitudes of modern Xuzhou. After the opening, the Old East Gate of Xuzhou will become the east gate of this modern building complex, and the "perfect combination" will not be listed one by one: Xuzhou Garden Hotel has a long history and witnessed the modern history of warlord wars and civil wars. 19 16, British American tobacco businessman Wu invested 20,000 silver dollars and invited construction technicians from Shanghai to build according to the most fashionable German villa style at that time. There is mahogany furniture in the hall, fireplace for heating, western-style bathroom, and famous chefs from north and south are hired to take care of Chinese and western meals. Elegant and luxurious Western-style facilities and all kinds of Chinese and Western cuisines have made Garden Hotel famous in the province for a time and become the first choice for domestic warlords, gentry and celebrities to stay and entertain after coming to Xu.
In A.D. 19 15, Wu, a wealthy businessman from Suzhou, came to the Xu family with his second wife. On a late autumn night, they went for a walk in the garden located in the north of Datong Street (this garden is actually a park). When Mrs. Wu was cheerfully telling Wu how many pomegranates were on the pomegranate tree, Wu suddenly found a fox lying on the curved trunk, as big as an adult cat, with very kind eyes. Wu thought he met the fox spirit, and then he saw the pomegranate tree hovering upward, just like two. He thought it was a godsend, so he made a wish and decided to open a shop here. 19 15 10 In June, the Garden Hotel started construction, and there was another miracle when the foundation of the small building was dug. When I dug to a depth of one meter, I found a well-laid old foundation, all made of stone and consistent with the design drawings! The wonders of Xuzhou's "city under the city" are common. Because of the war and the flood of the Yellow River, Xuzhou City was destroyed and flooded several times, but also because of this coincidence, Wu strengthened his determination to build a grand hotel, and the century-old history of the Garden Hotel began.
"Braid handsome" Zhang Xun once asked for answers here. During the warlord melee, Zhang Zongchang, Chu Yupu, Sun and Chen all lived here. 1927, the famous "Xuzhou Conference" was held here. Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Zhihui, Hu, Li Liejun and others reached an agreement with Feng Yuxiang to jointly "clean up the Party" and continue the Northern Expedition. This meeting formed an alliance between Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yuxiang, which changed the political situation in China at that time. 1938, Xuzhou fell, and the Japanese army seized the Garden Hotel and opened the "Hejiawu" Hotel, a Japanese senior guest house. After Japan surrendered, Hejiawu Hotel was replaced by Allied American Air Force Guest House. After the withdrawal of the US Air Force, it became the official appeasement office guest house at that time. At the beginning of 1946, Zhou Enlai, Zhang Zhizhong and Marshall arrived in Xuzhou by special plane, stayed at the Garden Hotel, discussed military mediation, and planned to sign the * * * troops in the military reorganization and unified preparation. Shortly after the trio left, Chiang Kai-shek and Jiang Weiguo also visited Xuzhou and stayed at the Garden Hotel. 1 948 65438+February1,Xuzhou was liberated. The war-torn Garden Hotel has also been reborn. 1April, 949, Xuzhou Municipal People's Government took over the Garden Hotel. 1949 In April, Xuzhou Municipal People's Government took over the Garden Hotel and gave a grand reception to President Mao Zedong and senior generals of our army such as Zhu De, Chen Yi, Liu Bocheng and Su Yu. 195 1 the people's government negotiated to buy it for 440 million yuan (old money), and the Garden Hotel became the first guest house of Xuzhou Municipal Government. If you wander around the Garden Hotel, there are tables made of rosewood and carved beds used by Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling. Datong street is the street with the most Xuzhou flavor in modern times, and it was once the street with the most Xuzhou flavor. Its name probably takes the meaning of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's "Great Harmony in the World", because there is a Zhongshan Hall in Datong Street to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Department stores compete for strength, and there are many old brands. The biggest feature of Datong Street is that there are many old shops, which make people see things in a blur. "The masterpiece is really strong, Huafengtai, Yutaixiang and Baocheng Jewelry Laofengxiang", compared with Datong Street, Huaihai Road is still relatively immature. At that time, Datong Street was famous for eating, and almost all the delicious food and snacks in Xuzhou gathered here. The mutton soup and leek fried buns in Lingyunlou are authentic and fragrant, with bright Islamic characters, and the sign "No foreign food allowed" is hung at the door. Sanzhenzhai's hot steamed dumplings are delicious, and Erfeng's spicy soup is a must. Luxing Restaurant and Abalone Wing Restaurant are also famous.
Datong Street really rose after 1920. No one can tell how many years Datong Street has been. The period when Datong Street began to undertake commercial mission can be traced back to the Yellow River diversion period, about the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. However, until the early years of the Republic of China, there were only a dozen ordinary shops on Datong Street. After the opening of Tiancheng Department Store, it quickly opened and became the largest department store in Xuzhou because of its new marketable department store shipped from Shanghai. Tiancheng's influence, like a stone, stirred up a thousand waves in Datong Street, attracting many department stores to follow, and the department store industry in Datong Street competed for each other, forming a number of old-fashioned firms. 1938 in may, Datong street was bombed by the Japanese invaders, and the shops that had been prosperous for many years turned into ruins.
In addition, Datong Street is also a gathering place for cultural performances and a great stage for people in history. The old library in Xuzhou is also in Datong Street.
When Datong Street was excavated, more cultural sites were discovered underground. Xuzhou West in Ming Dynasty is one of them. It's in the south of Datong Street in the city center. From October 2004 to May 2005, the Archaeological Department of Xuzhou Museum excavated it. The site is located 4.5 meters below the surface, with an excavation area of about 500 square meters. * * * Excavate 24 Ming Dynasty dwellings. The unearthed cultural relics mainly include bronzes, ironware, porcelain and woodwork. A large number of hot and cold military weapons and equipment were found in the construction site, mainly including guns, cannons, iron bullets, gunpowder, bows, knives, swords, armor, iron magazines and so on. The inscription on the stone tablet found in the site is "Rebuilding the Fusi Court in Xuzhou Xuwei Town in the 20th year of Chenghua Town", which accurately describes the nature and age of the site. "Sacred Heart of Jesus Church", namely "Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Xuzhou", was built in 19 10. No.216, Qingnian Road, Xuzhou City, near downtown, the west side of the church is closely connected with the Bishop's Office. Built in the southeast of Beijing 19 10 km and 346 km northwest of Nanjing, it is the most magnificent Catholic church in Xuzhou and one of the largest churches in Jiangsu Province. 1995, listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu province.
19 10, a Roman cathedral with a total area of 1200 square meters was built in Xuzhou, funded by French missionary Ai Wo Yun and designed by German missionary and architect Wu Ruo Sese, with a width of 25 meters from east to west, a depth of 52 meters from north to south and a height of 14.5 meters. Bell tower. The exterior wall is made of blue bricks and bluestones, the roof is a traditional joist or double eaves structure in China, and the interior is a dome. Across the road south is a convent.
The church is a typical Romanesque building, which adopts the architectural style of Roman vault, thick wall and masonry structure with vault. The church is in the shape of a basilica cross, 25 meters wide from east to west and 52 meters long from north to south. The height from the ground to the top of the cross is 2 1 m, and the total area is 1.500 square meters, which can accommodate thousands of people. It consists of a front porch, a chapel, a bell tower, a music building and a dressing room. The bell tower with symmetrical sides is as high as 19 meters. The exterior of the hall roof is a double-eave structure, which adopts the beam-lifting wooden frame in the ancient architecture of China, and the interior is an Anglo-Normandy-style prismatic vault. There are 50 green stone pillars in the temple as supporting columns, and the stigma is carved with rich patterns, including twisted patterns, grape grain patterns, leaf patterns, flower patterns and so on. , count 25 groups. With the expansion of missionary scope and the increase of religious believers, the Bishop's House and Monastery were built in 1936. The bell tower and tripod were rebuilt on 1980. 1992, the church excavated the chapel again.
193 1 year, the Catholic Church of Xuzhou, headed by Jesuits in Canada, was established, and the Sacred Heart Church of Jesus was upgraded to a cathedral. 1935 Xuzhou pastoral area was upgraded to Pontifical pastoral area. 1946, Catholicism in China was ruled by the holy system and officially upgraded to Xuzhou parish. Xuzhou Bell and Drum Tower, a municipal cultural relics protection unit, is located in the center of Datong Street in Xuzhou. This building is a five-story square tower-shaped building with mixed structure, which was built on the order of Yu Nianci, the county magistrate of Tongshan County in 193 1. With a height of about 20 meters and a building area of 120 square meters, it was the tallest building in Xuzhou at that time.
According to the records of Yunlong district, this building was originally built to report fire, so it is also called "Wanghuo Building". Every time a fire breaks out, a different bell is used to indicate the direction of the fire, so that the public can hear it and put out the fire. However, this "Wanghuo Building" never reported a fire alarm and was almost destroyed by a nearby fire.
1932, Datong Street paved the first asphalt road in Xuzhou, and it was also decided to replace the big bell of the Bell and Drum Tower with a new look. The installation of the clock was completed in the following winter. It is understood that this clock is a heavy hammer chain gear clock, with ceramic tiles on all sides, a Roman clock face, and the hands are one meter long. In the 1960 s, the clock face was changed into a white painted glass face, and Arabic numerals, numbers and hands were filed with hollow steel plates. Due to years of wear and tear, the clock later stopped swinging.