Displaced Historical Building
In colonial era, Banyumas is resident in the territory of the Dutch. In this place a lot of historical building. One of them is Kalibagor sugar factory.
Unfortunately, since this sugar factory closed in 1996, this condition is not maintained. The main building a lot of damage and the factory area to grow weed. Though this plant can be utilized as a potential tourist.
Based on data from the Office of Archives and Library of Banyumas, the sugar factory was built in 1839 by Edward Cooke Jr. He Dutch private entrepreneurs.
At that time, this factory was the largest in Central Java. The existence of this plant, closely related to cultural stelsel conducted by the Dutch goverment. The cultural stelsel requires people in the colonies to grow plants that export value. Such as sugarcane, tobacco, indigo, coffee, etc.
Banyumas, considered very suitable for planting sugar cane crops. Other than that available potential land and river transportation. So that the construction of sugar factories in Kalibagor considered very precise. Sir Edward Cooke Jr. died in 1847, and was buried in the factory complex.
