Schroeder, Santa Catarina
municipality of Santa Catarina state, Brazil
Schroeder (Schröder) is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.
It was named after Christian Mathias Schröder, a German senator who organized a colony in the area.
History
The origin of the municipality's name stems from senator Christian Mathias Schröder, born in the city of Hamburg, located in the north of Germany. Schroeder is also informally known by the name of Schroeder Straße, mainly by the older portion of the population that still speak German. The majority of the town's inhabitants are descendants from Germans originating in the northern region. The presence of other ethnic groups, mainly the Italians, also contributed to the city's history.
The history of the municipality begun with the marriage of Princess Francisca Carolina Joana Leopoldina Romana Xavier de Paula Micaela Rafaela Gabriela Gonzaga de Bragança (1824-1898) and Prince François Ferdinand Philippe Louis Marie d'Orléans (1818-1900). In the 1st of may of 1843, the princess Francisca Carolina, daughter of Pedro I of Brazil, married the prince of Joinville, François Ferdinand, son of the king of the French Louis Philippe, and received as a wedding dowry a nearby stretch of land, the colony of São Francisco, area which would be split up into several municipalities along the posterior century, including the town of São Francisco do Sul. In 1846 the engineer Jerônimo Coelho traveled to the area to make the demarcation of the lands.
In 1848, the king of the French Louis Philippe was dethroned and his son François took refuge in England.
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