Novo Hamburgo
Novo Hamburgo on the map of Brazil
Novo Hamburgo ( New Hamburg) is the northernmost city in the metropolitan Região Metropolitana de Porto Alegre in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city has about 260,000 inhabitants. As Franca to think of itself as the "Capital of the shoe " (Portuguese: "Capital Nacional do Calçado ").
Geography
Novo Hamburgo is located 45 kilometers north of Porto Alegre and 80 kilometers south of Caxias do Sul. The town lies in the valley of the Rio dos Sinos. North of you begin the Serra Gaúcha.
The city is adjacent to Campo Bom, Homeboys, Estancia Velha, Gravataí, Ivoti, Sapiranga, São Leopoldo and Taquara.
The city stretches over 217 km ². The climate is subtropical with a mean annual temperature of 19 ° C.
History
The first inhabitants in the 18th century were Azorean who have settled in Rincão dos Ilheus district. From 1824 German immigrants came to São Leopoldo, a first rural center was built on the Hamburger Berg, the core of the present-day city. After that, more and more English came into the city and built in 1870 a railway line.
Novo Hamburgo is not settled hamburgers, but more of Hunsrückers. However, Hamburg was the common embarkation of the German settlers. 1927 Novo Hamburgo was founded as a city.
After the war, entering Brazil in 1944, the town was temporarily renamed Marechal Floriano Peixoto.
Diocese of Novo Hamburgo
The city is the seat of the Diocese of Novo Hamburgo, whose episcopal church is the São Luís Gonzaga Cathedral.
Economy
Novo Hamburgo is today an industrial town, particularly consisting of tanneries and shoe factories. Since the 1990s, the leather industry has come through imports from countries like China into crisis. Diversification is taking place ever since. Attracted by potential jobs, many poor people came from other parts of Brazil, so that problems such as slum formation and lack of infrastructure occur.
Attractions
In Hamburgo Velho district (formerly Hamburger Berg ) are still some old buildings. The Museum of the painter and sculptor Ernesto Frederico Scheffel in a house from 1890 is interesting not only as a building. Next to it is the oldest surviving building in the city Casa Schmitt - Presser, a half-timbered house of 1831st The Shoe Museum Museu Nacional do Calçado is also located on the Hamburg Mountain.
Environment
In the nearby small towns Ivoti, Homeboys and Sapiranga you have good access to small rivers with waterfalls and mountains with remnants of virgin forest. The highest waterfall, with over 100 meters above sea level can be found in Santa Maria do Herval. There and in small settlements like Frankenberg or Muckerberg German is still spoken language ( Riograndenser Hunsrückisch ).
Sons and daughters of the town
- Daniela Lanner Mapeli ( born 1975 ), Brazilian volleyball player
- Maicon Douglas Sisenando ( Maicon, born 1981 ), Brazilian international footballer
- Bárbara Arenhart (* 1986), Women's Handball
- Muriel Gustavo Becker ( Muriel; * 1987), German -Brazilian football goalkeeper
- Cesar Ramos ( * 1989), Brazilian racing driver