Morska Wola

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Morska Wola

Morska Wola (German Seewille , Portuguese Colônia Morska Wola ) was a Polish settlement in the Brazilian state of Paraná .

history

In the 1930s there were around 150,000 Poles in Paraná, who came from the first and second wave of Polish immigration. In the interwar period, the maritime and colonial society ( Liga Morska i Kolonialna ) had formed in Poland, which propagated colonies for Poland. In 1933 she sent her deputy Brigadier General Stefan Strzemieński to Brazil to buy land. He came back with an option to purchase 2 million hectares in the area reserved for Indians, settlement plans and the related task of building a railway line between the cities of Riozinho and Guarapuava , which was supposed to connect any Polish settlements. These proposals had been accepted by the Paranaian state government.

In a first step, only 7,000 hectares were purchased for the first settlement, which was to be symbolically called Morska Wola , then expanded by 2000 hectares, as well as an additional 21,000 hectares for another planned settlement in tribute to General Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer as Orlicz-Dreszer provided, but never came about. The construction of the railway line was also not implemented. The rural area was divided into 286 parcels of 25 hectares each and 62 parcels of 100 × 60 meters each were provided for the settlement core, but a functioning infrastructure seems to have remained in the beginning. The price for the colonists including the crossing was 3000 zlotys . In August 1935 the first immigrants arrived, to whom the league assigned the parcels. At the end of 1936 there were 75 Polish families, about 350 people in total. In 1937 an increase to 113 families was mentioned, with which only 50% of the planned settlements had been reached.

Due to the anti-settlement attitude of the Brazilian government under Getúlio Vargas and the decreasing interest on the part of the Polish population, the plan to found a Polish colony in Brazil was abandoned in 1938. Nothing precise is known about the whereabouts, the failed colonization attempt is only a footnote in the history books today. The sparse information suggests that it was located in the area of ​​today's mesoregion Centro-Sul Paranaense .

She was remembered by the christening of the MS Morska Wola in February 1939 , which was named after the settlement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taras Hunczak: Polish Colonial Ambitions in the Inter-War. In: Slavic Review , Volume 26, No. 4, 1967, pp. 648-656. ( JSTOR 2492615 , accessed November 11, 2017).
  2. ^ Marek Arpad Kowalski: Wojna brazylijsko-polska. ( Memento of October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Opcja na Prawo , May 2006. Retrieved on November 11, 2017 (Polish).
  3. ↑ Tadeusz Białas: Liga Morska i Kolonialna 1930-1939. Wydawnictwo Morskie, Gdańsk 1983, ISBN 83-215-3257-8 , pp. 196-208 (Brazylia).
  4. ↑ Jerzy Mazurek: A Polônia e seus emigrados na América Latina (até 1939). Editora Espaço Acadêmico, Goiânia 2016, ISBN 978-85-69818-12-0 , p. 74 ( online at Academia.edu . Accessed November 11, 2017, Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Michał Lipka: Barwna historia Morskiej Woli i Stalowej Woli. In: website trojmiasto.pl February 10, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2017 (Polish).