Sao Leopoldo
| Município de São Leopoldo Berço da Imigração Alemã no Brasil
Sao Leopoldo
O Gigante do Val São Leo |
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 Aerial photo 2012
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| Coordinates | 29 ° 46 ′ S , 51 ° 9 ′ W | ||
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Motto “Fé, Cultura e Trabalho” Faith, culture and work |
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| founding | July 25, 1824 (colony) April 1, 1846 (city foundation) |
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Rio Grande do Sul | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-RS | ||
| Região intermediária | Porto Alegre (since 2017) | ||
| Região imediata | Novo Hamburgo-São Leopoldo (since 2017) | ||
| Mesoregion | Metropolitana de Porto Alegre (until 2017) | ||
| Microregion | Porto Alegre (until 2017) | ||
| Metropolitan area | Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre | ||
| structure | 24 Bairros , 198 other settlements | ||
| height | 15 m | ||
| climate | Cfa, subtropical | ||
| surface | 102.7 km² | ||
| Residents | 214,087 (2010) | ||
| density | 2,083.8 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 236,835 (July 1, 2019) | ||
| Post Code | 93.000-000 to 93.179-999 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
| Website | saoleopoldo.rs (pt-BR) | ||
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| City Prefect | Ary José Vanazzi (2017-2020) | ||
| Political party | PT | ||
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| Patron saint | Nossa Senhora da Conceição | ||
| economy | |||
| GDP | 6,745,959 thousand R $ 31,510 R $ per capita (2014) |
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| HDI | 0.747 (2010) | ||
São Leopoldo , officially Portuguese Município de São Leopoldo , belongs to the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul . The city named after Maria Leopoldine of Austria had an estimated 236,835 inhabitants as of July 1, 2019.
geography
São Leopoldo has the coordinates 29 ° 46 'South and 51 ° 09' West. It is located in the valley of the Rio dos Sinos 35 km north of Porto Alegre and 10 km south of Novo Hamburgo .
The area is 102 km² and it is 26 m above sea level. The climate is subtropical with an average annual temperature of 19 ° C.
history
On July 25, 1824, the first 38 (or 126, according to another source) German immigrants reached the Feitoria , a no longer functioning state property, in the then so-called Colonia Alemã de São Leopoldo . The colony area ranged (today's city names) from Esteio in the south to Caxias do Sul in the north, from Taquara in the east to Porto dos Guimarães ( São Sebastião do Caí ) in the west. More waves of immigrants settled the region. They were considered to be very hardworking and not only worked as "farmers", but also as "craftsmen". By 1830, 3,700 immigrants had come. From 1835 to 1844 the colony got into the chaos of civil war and was almost wiped out. However, more people willing to emigrate were sought in Germany, and the Brazilian state gave them free passage, land (130 acres), seeds and money for the first two years. The city was founded on April 1, 1846, d. H. independent of Porto Alegre.
Economy and Transport
The artisanal production formed the core of an early industrialization with a wide range of production today. The Human Development Index (HDI) is 0.747 which is rated as high. The gross domestic product was 6.7 billion reais in 2014 , so São Leopoldo ranks ninth among the municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul.
Shortly before the turn of the millennium, the city was connected to the Trensurb suburban train network of Porto Alegre.
education
São Leopoldo is the seat of the renowned Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos). It has won several awards as the best privately owned university in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and one of the best private universities nationwide.
Attractions
Buildings
- Igreja Nossa Senhora da Conceição , Catholic church in neo-Gothic style from 1865.
- Igreja de Cristo , Protestant church in neo-Gothic style from 1911.
- Santuário Sagrado Coração do Jesus , Catholic Church, built 1958–1968, inside: grave of P. Johann Baptist Reus , next to it: Jesuit cemetery.
- Sociedade Orpheu , the oldest society club in Brazil, founded in 1858.
- Ponte 25 de Julho , historic iron bridge over the Sinos river.
- Praça do Imigrante , square with the immigrant monument from 1924.
Museums
- Museu histórico Visconde de São Leopoldo , historical museum on the history of immigration and colonization in São Leopoldo, founded in 1959, in a new building since 1985, also contains a historical archive with 140,000 documents, 38,000 newspapers, 13,000 photographs and a library of 9,000 volumes about the Geography, history, art and culture of Rio Grande do Sul.
- Casa do Imigrante , building of the former Feitoria (factory) from 1788, served as temporary accommodation for the first German immigrants in 1824, placed under monument protection in March 1992, today houses a museum with items related to German immigration, including furniture, weapons, household appliances, agricultural implements and tools.
- Museu do Trem , railway museum in the old train station from 1874, contains documents and objects related to the history of the railway in Rio Grande do Sul, including historical railway cars.
Sons and daughters
- João Aloysio Hoffmann (1919–1998), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Erexim
- Renan Dal Zotto (* 1960), volleyball player and coach
- Edson Batista de Mello (* 1964), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Cachoeira do Sul
literature
- W. Stricker. The German Colonie Sao Leopoldo in southern Brazil In: Deutsches Museum , magazine for literature, art and public life. Hinrich, Leipzig, Volume 1, 1851, pp. 279–285 ( digital version of the MDZ ).
- Wilhelm Wolf: German immigrants in São Leopoldo 1824–1937. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1964.
Web links
- City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Museu histórico Visconde de São Leopoldo (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c IBGE : São Leopoldo - Panorama. Retrieved November 23, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Rodrigo Trespach: German immigrants on the north coast of Rio Grande do Sul. Website, date: January 3, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
- ↑ São Leopoldo, RS , Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano do Brasil. Retrieved December 1, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ PIB dos municípios do RS em 2014: desempenho dos serviços contribuiu com os principais ganhos de participação. In: gov.br. www.fee.rs.gov.br, December 14, 2016, accessed December 1, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Melhor particular da região Sul é a Unisinos , Jornal da Unisinos , January 4, 2010, accessed on July 6, 2020.