The Leopolding Scenery among 1850 and 1930

Abstract

This work intends to reproduce and analyse the scenery teutogerman immigrants lived, seeing it as a social space. From the drawing of this landscape emerges, from the very beginning of 1850, the Leopolding Center, in the State of Rio grande do Sul, the countryside sociability and, specially how was leved the leisure time. São Leopoldo is described though detailed fragments of these and public and private spaces accupied by immigrants’ upper class: Ball Rooms, Clubs, Hotels, Ranches and the hills where took place many pic-nics. German immigration, from 1824, brought to our country, Brazil, a new language, a reformed religion and other cosmovisions. In 1846, when the teutobrazilian colony becomes a village, trademen, from Germany, and lusobrazilian people, constitute the local political high society. Luterans and german citizens that didn’t get naturalize themselves, language and the songs came true the living space in focus along this article. Keywords: São Leopoldo City; Orfeu; German immigrant; Urban Space; Urban History.