Morro Reuter

Morro Reuter on the map of Brazil

Morro Reuter is a city in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The town has about 5,600 inhabitants, of whom about 70 % live in the town. It is located about 60 kilometers north of Porto Alegre in the Serra Gaúcha. Before independence as Munizip was the site of Morro Reuter part of Homeboys, in front of São Leopoldo.

Morro Reuter is bordered ( clockwise starting in the north ) to Picada Café, Santa Maria do Herval, Sapiranga, Homeboys, Ivoti and Presidente Lucena. The mountainous partially overgrown with jungle municipal area rises up to 700 meters in height. From the heights of you have impressive long-distance views.

History

The original indigenous inhabitants of the region were Bugres, whose traces can be seen today only in caves dug by them.

The Reuters mountain (the name probably goes back to a hostel that was run by the family Reuter ) was settled by German colonists since 1829. In 1872 the first school was built. In the isolation of the area, which could only be reached on donkey-back, the settlers were on their own. They created community facilities and maintained their German heritage. 1907, based on ideas of Raiffeisen cooperative bank Caixa Rural União Popular de São José do Herval was founded. From 1938 and during the 2nd World War, the use of the German language was increasingly prohibited under Getúlio Vargas Dornelles.

In a plebiscite in November 1991, the majority of the population has decided to form their own Munizip. It consists of the central districts of Belvedere and Linha Goergen and from the villages Walachai, São José do Herval, Picada São Paulo, Linha Cristo Rei, Fazenda Padre Eterno, Birckental, Frankenthal, Muckental and Batatental.

Traffic

1942 Morro Reuter got on the main road from Porto Alegre to Caxias do Sul connection to the road network. The road was asphalted in 1956. Morro Reuter is on the tourist route Rota Romantica.