|
The
Aerial Photographs of
Bandung
I have some great aerial
photographs of the old Bandung (1920's and 1930's). By viewing
these photo, you can imagine how beautiful Bandung as Parijs
van Java in the past.
Atjehstraat
- Merdikaweg - Bilitonstraat - Sumatrastraat - Borneostraat -
Bangkastraat
This view from 1920's
gives a good view of the north east district of the center.
The KNIL (Dutch Army) War Department building, right from the
middle, is the one that catches attention, in the Kalimantan
Street. On the left the Palace of the Army commandant (in the
Aceh street) and the Molukkenpark (Taman Maluku), and
the HBS (now it is SMA 3 and 5 Building) on the right of
Bilitonstraat (Belitung Street). In the front of the War
Department is the Insulindepark (now Taman Lalulintas),
surrounded by all kinds of building and houses of KNIL
officers. Behind the War Department are buildings of the the Jaarbeurs,
first built in 1920. Down left in the picture is the
intersection between Aceh Street and Merdeka Street (BIP). At
the background, in the left corner is the Department of
Government buildings, betterknown as Gedung Sate.
Old Grand Hotel Homann
This is the view of the old
Grand Hotel Homann and
surroundings. Hotel Homann was founded around 1870 on the
Groote Postweg (now Asia Africa Street) as a simple hotel, but grew to be the most
popular hotel of Bandung. Many famous people stayed there, but
besides that it was very well known for its rice-table. In
1938 / 1939 the old hotel was replaced by a modern Indonesian
new-business-style (art deco style)
building by a design of architect Aalbers,
with the new name Hotel Savoy Homann. Down right on the
picture, dated beginning 1930's, the Bragaweg ends in the
Groote Postweg. The building on the corner, one should see a
part of the roof, was part of the famous Concordia Club.
Rembrandtstraat -
Tjilakistraat - Tjisankoejstraat - Tjimanoekstraat -
Wenckebachstraat - Dagoweg - Progoweg
Five Fokker airplanes
of the KNIL airforce are flying above the Department of
Government Buildings (Gedung Sate), in 1925.
North of this area are no buildings on the picture, only the
Geological Laboratory, beside which the Geological Museum
later was to be built, is already completed. This
city-district mainly was reserved as an building-area for
other departments from Batavia, but those transfer-plans were
cancelled. South of the Gedung Sateh roads are built and the
first country-houses are to be seen. The three-cornered shaped
group of houses is the Gempol kampong-district.
Villa Isola - Lembangweg
Villa Isola
at Setiabudhi Street, direction Lembang, in 1938. It was built
in 1933 ordered by the millionaire Berretty, one of the most
famous persons in the Indies newspaper-world en founder of the
press agency Aneta. Berretty had this impressive
country-house predominantly built in new-business style by the
famous architect Wolff Schoemaker, already responsible
for the Grand Hotel Preanger, the Jaarbeurs building and the
Concordia club. Berretty was only able to enjoy this beautiful
posession for one year. December 22, 1934 he crashed with the
"Uiver", a plane of the KLM, the Royal Dutch
Airlines. After that Villa Isola was in service as a annex of
the Grand Hotel Homann, untill the Second Worldwar. Now, this
building is the main office for UPI (Universitas
Pendidikan Indonesia
The Old Soekamiskin Prison
View from 1930 of the Sukamiskin
Prison, at Ujungberung street, East of Bandung, on road to
Garut. Around the huge, symmetric shaped complex the houses
for the personal are built. The small airport Sukamiskin is
seen in the background, one can see the landingstrip markings.
Sukamiskin was used from the late 1920's as a prison for
Indonesian nationalists and was known to the people as a
symbol of colonial suppression. President Sukarno was
here in prison, after his conviction in the sensational trial
against him and some other Indonesian leaders in december
1930. The irony was that Sukarno some years earlier, during a
short period as an architect, probably worked on the building
drawings himself. During the Japanese occupation Sukamiskin
was a prison for Dutch civil servants, until February 1944.
Bragaweg - Merdikaweg -
Soeniaradjaweg - Tamblongweg - Javastraat - Logeweg -
Grootepostweg
Another view on the center of
Bandung, around 1930, direction north west this time. The
upper part of the picture shows the railroad clearly, crossed
by the northern part of the Bragaweg. North of this crossing
one should see the white buildings of the residence office,
the Bank of Java (now Bank Indonesia building), and the
Church of Bethel, and the Parc of
Pieter Sythof (Taman Balaikota / Taman Merdeka) on the right. Between this
Park oand the Cathedral Church is the Schoolroad (now
it is the part of Merdeka Street). The name for the School
is the Ursulinen Sisters (now St Angela High School),
see the high, white building upper right, and the Dutch-Native
Training-college for teachers next to it. Along the northern
part of the Bragaweg, on the left, old low buildings mostly
are being replaced by modern European shops, with multiple
floors. Notice the building with the flat roof of the
Dutch
Indies Gas Company. In the middle of the picture are along the
diagonal Oude Hospitaalroad (Lembong Street) the telephone office and the
radio-telephone office, in an L-shape.
|
