Blumenau's history is the result of the arrival of German immigrants who settled in the fertile lands of the Atlantic Forest and built the São Paulo de Blumenau colony. It was founded by pharmaceutical chemist Hermann Blumenau, after whom the town is named. Having an interest in the problems faced by European immigrants, in 1845 he came to the Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to represent it via power of attorney and headed to Brazil, aiming to install new colonies and, at the same time, verify the situation of those that had already existed. He traveled to Rio Grande do Sul, and then to Santa Catarina, where he visited the German colony of São Pedro de Alcântara. Aware of comments about the Itajaí valley, he explored it in detail, associating with his compatriot Ferdinand Hackradt, as the aforementioned society dissolved.

They crossed the Itajaí-Açu river upstream aboard canoes, led by the Brazilian Ângelo Dias. After traveling for three days, they reached the mouth of the Garcia and Velha streams in 1849. It was the region whose colonization was decisive for the initial settlement of the municipality. He obtained from the president of the Province of Santa Catarina a donation of two cubic leagues, from the Garcia river, building a mill and other shacks. After taking certain precautions, he headed for Germany to look for settlers. And on September 2, 1850, Hermann Blumenau returned to the elected zone with the initial seventeen immigrants. At this point, the partnership formed between H. Blumenau and Hackradt had already dissolved. Thus, Blumenau began to be populated. Most of the original immigrants come from small German villages such as Pahnstangen in Thuringia. Among the notorious immigrants arrived, such as the biologist, who collaborated with the ideas of Charles Darwin, Dr. Johann Müller. However, the obstacles were great and Hermann Blumenau requested the help of the imperial government. Pedro II do Brasil acquired the colony for payment in contos de réis and appointed Blumenau as its director in 1860.


Rua XV de Novembro in 1920

Old Quarter, 1920s
In spite of the floods, the clashes with wild animals and even with the natives, due to the work of German immigrants willing to continuously enter in larger numbers, the colony prospered, but not without conflicts with the original inhabitants of the region. Blumenau was inhabited by the Xoclengues Indians, who had their lands invaded by immigrants, giving rise to several conflicts, from which the Indians were the losers. For a series of years there was only one means of transport: the Itajaí River, through which canoes and smaller ships sailed.

Blumenau also received many Italian immigrants, which led to conflicts between these and the German settlers. The Italians were almost all Catholic, while many of Blumenau's Germans were Lutherans. Furthermore, the Italians were settled in peripheral and mountainous lots, while the Germans occupied the flat lands near the center of the colony.


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