Stolzenfels - Tjibatoe [????-????] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Stolzenfels - Tjibatoe [????-????]

Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists

1988 - Stolzenfels on 1888 map

1919 - Tjibatoe listed in the Ladies Directory

1949 - Cloud Nine (Tjibatoe)

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Stolzenfels or Tjibatoe
Stolzenfels or Tjibatoe, by John Roosegaarde Bisschop

 

Villa Stolzenfels was bought by the Dutch steamer company Java-China-Japanlijn (later also known as Royal Interocean Line) in 1903. It became the residence of the company’s managing director and was renamed Tjibatoe.

Tjibatoe is the name of a river in Indonesia (near Bandung). All ships of the original Java-China-Japanlijn were named after rivers near Bandung.

I have it from hearsay that the house was bombed during World War Two. Any evidence this is true?

Is name Tjibatoe still in use for location on the Peak?

I have it from hearsay that the house was bombed during World War Two. Any evidence this is true?

Other buildings in this area were bombed, so it is possible. Also, the site was re-developed soon after the war as the current building on the site was completed in 1949. That also suggests the previous building was damaged in the war, though it could have been damaged by looting.

Is name Tjibatoe still in use for location on the Peak?

Government maps and documents use the name 'Cloud Nine', but Google maps still show it as 'Cloud Nine (tjibatoe)': https://goo.gl/maps/hYzx6wxrPQ1ciWBj6

The daughter of the Manager of the Java-China-Japan Lijn was born here on 27th April 1920, then 38 The Peak or "Tjibatoe"