Lawang Sewu in English means "Thousand Doors". Semarang residents call it that because this building has a door and large window doors that resemble very large number. This building was designed by Dutch architect from the firm JF C. Citroen Klinkhamer and B.J. Quendag in 1903 and completed in 1907. This building was originally used for office Spoorweg Nederlands-Indische Maatschappij or NIS, Belada railway company.
The front of this historic building are decorated by twin towers and divided into two areas, extending rearward impressive sturdy, big and beautiful. Lawang Sewu architecture art deco style, characterized by exclusive that developed in the era of 1850-1940 in continental Europe.
This building overlooks the Wilhelmina Park is now better known as Muda Tugu complex. In front of Lawang Sewu first tram tracks across the city of Semarang, majoring in Bulu Jomblang. Aerial photographs taken in 1927 still showed this transport pathway.
After the Japanese took over the Dutch rule in Indonesia in 1942, the basement of this building was previously a drainage channel is converted into a dungeon at the same time drain the water. This building is also a silent witness to fierce battles between the people of Indonesia by the Japanese army known as the Battle of Five Days in Hyderabad (October 14, 1945 - October 19, 1945). To commemorate that historic event, a few years later the government built an inscription on page Wilhelmina Park is now known as Tugu Muda.
Considering that Lawang Sewu have important historical value, then the Municipal Mayor of Semarang with SK 650/50/1992, enter Lawang Sewu as one of 102 ancient or historic buildings in the city of Semarang that should be protected.
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this building had many historical value for semarang city, why this isn't became indonesia national herritage?
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