A infância e adolescência na Colônia Alemã General Osório (1909-1979)

Abstract

The history of the municipal district of Ibirubá, general former-colony Osório, is above all consequence of the German immigration in the south of Brazil. Starting from 1824, immigrants speaking German dialects arrived in the old colonies, the settled in small properties and they explored them to the maximum with the family work. They had many children that, in the context of the earth lack, they created the new colonies, in another areas of the north of Big Rio of the South and, to proceed, out of the State. In 1898, the company Dias and Fagundes was founded with the objective of colonizing an area of acquired earth of posseiros and of the provincial, located government the east of the river Jacuí Mirim. The area became valued after the construction of the railroad Santa Maria Pass Fund, that ensejava the easy flowing of the local production. The following year, they began to arrive the first colonist, comes from of the old colony and, some, directly of Germany. Until the emancipation of the current municipal district of Ibirubá, in 1955, it prevailed in the colony the subsistence economy, highlighting the suinocultura and the family agriculture. The religiosity, the work, the school for the children was primordial for the colonist German peasants. In this context, the history peculiar of the children and of the adolescents, object of the present dissertation, came as a rosary of privations, of a lot of work, of severe punishments and, of few toys, generally made by the children with the own hands