Architechture

Following the development of high-power, longwave, long-distance wireless communication technology in the 1910s,, forming a communication network in Eastern and Southeast Asia that reflects the Japanese attempt to engage in military expansion. Initially, the Fongshan Communication Center was a large scale architecture spanning across a ring-shaped area around Shengli Road in Fongshan District today, as well as surrounding umbrella-shaped antenna-array regions. The Fongshan Communication Center was built mostly above ground. Accordingly, with many of its important construction equipment shielded by bunkers to protect them from the new artillery technology at the time. After World War II, it was repurposed as Mingde Discipline Center for the navy to interrogate detained officers and soldiers, adding another chapter to its history.

鳳山／原日本海軍鳳山無線電信所

1910年代，伴隨大功率長波遠距離無線通訊技術的發展，日本海軍相繼於千葉縣船橋（1915）、臺灣鳳山（1919）、長崎縣佐世保針尾（1922）完成大型無線電信所興建，建構其在東亞及東南亞地區的通訊網絡，具體反映其軍事力量向外擴張的企圖。
最初的鳳山無線電信所除包含今日鳳山勝利路圍繞的環狀地帶外，還包含週邊的傘形天線矩陣，規模宏大。此外，相較於較早興建的船橋無線電信所，建築物多在地面層以上，鳳山無線電信所重要的建築設備改以掩體覆蓋，以對應新的火砲技術發展。
日治後期，因短波技術的應用，曾縮小並改變鳳山無線電信所的電線配置。戰後因曾轉作為海軍偵審拘禁官兵的明德訓練班使用，而被賦予另一層歷史意義。

文／蔡侑樺
圖／高雄市政府文化局

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