Two Brothers

Origin City

Two Brothers is located on the first rungs of the slope of the Southern Plateau, an average elevation of 175 meters, a position which gave him the name "Gate of the Sierra." Municipality member of River Valley Trading Post, a tributary of Fall River, its history is linked to the German settlement in the state, part of the former colony of Sao Leopoldo, installed in 1824. He received the first settlers from 1825, among them Peter Baum and family, a farmer and shoemaker, the Hunsrück.

The most significant leads colonists who occupied part of the 249 lots of "Great line of Two Brothers" was the former Cecilia shipwrecked vessel. The ship left the port of Bremen in 1827 and was surprised by a storm in the Channel. Partially destroyed, the ship was abandoned by its captain and seamen, running aimlessly until he was found by an English ship that led to Falmouth, England. They remained there for about two years, pending the resolution of your destinations.

Former Cecilia passengers were transported to Brazil aboard another ship, the James Laing. This departed from Falmouth on January 2, 1829, arriving in Rio de Janeiro on February 8, 1829. He brought 305 settlers, immigrants, which added to other awaiting shipment at Armação da Praia Grande, totaling 342 people, transported to Porto Alegre by coastal Florinda. These immigrants left the Rio de Janeiro on April 10, 1829, arriving in Porto Alegre on May 13. They were transported in successive waves to Sao Leopoldo, headquarters of the German Colony, on 14, 15 and 24 May 1829. These comprise the majority of families leads to fixate on Baumschneitz, from 1829, joining other German immigrants established earlier and occupying part of the 249 lots which was divided into the Grand Line of the Two Brothers.

Tradition tells us that in honor of the Archangel, they set the day of San Miguel in March as its founding. To this day is celebrated "Michelskerb" Kerb of San Miguel.

In 1832 the Catholic settlers opened the chapel in honor of St. Michael. The place was built the temple is probably the same where since 1868 the other was built with Gothic features, and completed in 1880, which is now listed by the State Historic site and the Municipality.
The occupation of the Grand Line, also known as "Baumschneitz" (Baum of Sting), Sting of the Two Brothers and St Michael of the Two Brothers, took place primarily through the activity developed in lots that lined up side by side in the northbound south-Sting. The population density is constructive and has done over the sting, San Miguel Avenue today, with trading house, craft activities (blacksmiths, carpenters, carpentry, shoe lombilharias, etc.)., Homes and churches, planted at the head of the lots, constituting a "village-caterpillar."

Even today, traveling to San Miguel Avenue, identified the Old Catholic Church of St. Michael (1880), the Evangelical Church (1855), the Evangelical Lutheran Church (1938), the Society of St. Cecilia Canto (1927), the Company Shooters ( 1897), the Immaculate Conception School (1900), and trading houses, including the house that now houses the Municipal History Museum.

The city still preserves the original character of the agricultural region, with the dominance of small farms focused on mixed farming, which emphasizes the cultivation of corn, onion, potato, cassava, beans, sugar cane and horticultural species, as well as poultry , pigs, dairy cattle and wooded areas with black wattle for the extraction of tannin and wood. This characteristic is identified in the tourist-cultural itinerary Route Colonial Baumschneitz. The craft leather-shoe gave way to small and medium footwear industries that export to the domestic and international, to woodworking and furniture industries and frames.

The demographic and economic growth has been accompanied by political changes and administrative, in 1857, Two Brothers is transformed into the 4th District of the city of Sao Leopoldo, in 1938, the population is high the village category and in 1959 it created the city of Two Brothers.

Germanic origins of the majority population is present not only in the blond hair and blue eyes of his children, but in the German speaking Portuguese with a strong dialect or accent. It is also within their cultural traditions: the love of dance, singing, music and parties. More importantly, the importance given to education. Church, school and work were in the past and are still present in the three pillars on which it builds the story of two brothers.