Nueva Germania
Nueva Germania | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: 23°54′0″S 56°42′12″W / 23.90000°S 56.70333°W | |
| Country | Paraguay |
| Department | San Pedro |
| Founded | 23 August 1887 by Bernhard Förster |
| Government | |
| • Intendente Municipal | Alicia González de Saíz |
| Area | |
• City | 657 km2 (254 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 132 m (433 ft) |
| Population (2022) | |
| • Urban | 1,124 |
| • Rural | 4,566 |
| • Total | 5,690 |
| Time zone | -4 GMT |
| Postal code | 8470 |
| Area code | (595) (44) |
Nueva Germania (New Germania, German: Neugermanien) is a district of San Pedro Department in Paraguay. It was founded as a German settlement on 23 August 1887 by Bernhard Förster and Elisabeth Nietzsche to create a model community in the New World based on antisemitic eugenic ideas that were supposed to demonstrate the supremacy of German culture and society. In 1889, Förster committed suicide after the settlement's initial failure. After Förster's death and Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche's return to Germany, the inhabitants took the management of the town into their own hands and distanced themselves from the ideas of its founders.
Because of its racist and eugenic antisemitic history, the town is often represented in sensationalist ways, which contemporary inhabitants reject.