São Lourenço do Sul
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Coordinates: 31 ° 22 ′ S , 51 ° 59 ′ W São Lourenço do Sul on the map of Rio Grande do Sul
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| Country | Brazil | |
| State | Rio Grande do Sul | |
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| Waters | Lagoa dos Patos | |
| prefix | (+55) 51 | |
| License Plate | RS - São Lourenço do Sul | |
| Time zone | UTC −3 | |
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São Lourenço do Sul is located about 200 km south of Porto Alegre in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and is a small town and seaside resort on the west bank of the Lagoa dos Patos lagoon with about 45,000 inhabitants . The city was founded by German immigrants and is still inhabited by numerous German-Brazilian people.
history
The German merchant Jacob Rheingantz (born August 10, 1817 in Sponheim ) acquired eight square miles of undeveloped land from the imperial government of Brazil on December 30, 1856 and expanded it with modest means into a model colony. The purchase price was half a real per square brassa (one brassa was 2.20 meters, one square brassa was 4.84 square meters). Rheingantz undertook to measure the land within five years and to settle it with at least 1,440 agricultural colonists of German, Swiss and Belgian nationality, whom he recruited in 1857.
The first immigrant group consisted of 88 people, including 15 families and 14 singles. There were only five farmers among them, but there were many craftsmen ( tailors , blacksmiths , carpenters , painters , technicians , wagons , bakers , bookbinders , agate drills and five shoemakers ). The emigrants were selected by the emigration agent Wilhelm Hühn from Hamburg . Since an agricultural colony was planned, the composition of the settlers did not meet expectations, so that only six of the original colonists were listed in a directory from 1879. In 1859, 1860, 1861 and 1862 further immigrants from the Rhineland and Silesia followed , and in the years that followed from Pomerania . In 1879 there were already 860 German families with around 6000 people living in São Lourenço do Sul.
See also
- Pomerano (minority languages)