This brewery city in Shantung province was primarily built by the Germans starting in 1898
[DOC] [TLE] Siege of Tsingtao - Wikipedia [PAR] The Siege of Tsingtao, sometimes Siege of Tsingtau, was the attack on the 
German port of ... Germany then began to assert its influence across the rest of 
the province and ... A network of trenches, batteries, and other fortifications had 
been built in ... Tsingtao by concentrating all of their available East Asian troops 
in the city.