Colonia Tovar: Venezuela's "Little Germany" Looks Like a Village in the Black Forest
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- Where can you find half-timbered houses, German beer, and Black Forest cake in South America? Colonia Tovar. DW's Joel Dullroy visited the Venezuelan tourist attraction, where he felt transported back to the heart of the Black Forest. The town has a population of roughly 20,000 people, and was founded by German immigrants around 150 years ago. Not much has changed there since then.
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I’m a Venezuelan from Caracas and that place is magical and beautiful. I can say hands down it’s the best touristic place of Venezuela. Yes, you have better natural beauty in other places in the country but as far as man made places goes, nothing beats La Colonia Tovar.
And now imagine all of Venezuela would look like this! Nice houses, clean, organized. It is not a dream, it can be achieved.
Nah, Lecheria is better and it's man made
OMG, Colonia Tovar ❤❤❤😁🇻🇪the best. So beautiful!!!
Holocaust commanding officers are resident of this town.
Vito ere bruto. 4 + 19
I went to La Colonia Tovar for my birthday and had dinner at the Bergland Hotel, the lady he interviewed was the recepcionist. The restaurant is absolutely gorgeous, and the food was delicious, although quite expensive
Small world 😊.
Holocaust commanding officers are resident of this town.
Not @@amarkachari1839
@@amarkachari1839 you have more information? Would be quiet interesting for some of us germans. We still talk about it where these leaders and commanders fled to, but many many open questions. Have you got names? Thanks so much!
I'm just starting to learn german and the lady's accent was super! I could clearly hear the venezuelan sounds and some bavarian sounds very interesting
Ich war letztes Jahr da und habe auch mit einem Einheimischen gesprochen. Das Bier hat mich, anders als Polar, an die Heimat erinnert :).
Wie war Ihre Erfahrung?
@@adolforivas8415 Sehr Gut! Der Weg in die Colonia ist jedoch... gewöhnungsbedürftig :). Außerdem sind die Häuser schon sehr klischee.. :)
Fun Fact: The first Conquistadors to colonize Venezuela were German. The king of Spain at the time King Charles the the fifth was also Holy Roman Emperor as well if that makes any sense of German Conquistadors coming to the Americas.
Venezuela was a country when colonia tovar existed, it was a colony formed by venezuelan government.
And the only German colony that existed in the Americas was Venezuela: Klein Venedig, from from 1528 to 1546. That's a little known fact.
A little detail into consideration, central europeans were not the first but among the first, it was a leased colony from the Spanish Crown, first spanish settlers arrived just inmediately after Columbus made it to Continental mainland in 1498. First spanish town was Nueva Cadiz at the NE on Cubagua Island for pearl exploits. The small harsh city of Coro at the NW, then became the Neu Augsburg of the Klein Venedig, its Capital, but the small city was already there. From such city departed some expeditions into Venezuela and Colombia, many towns eventually arose from such journies. The main reason for the Klein Venedig was not exploration of vast unknown lands though but closeby mining. Germans took part of some expeditions buy mining was their main local activity.
But the Klein Venedig from early XVI C should not be confused with Colonia Tovar, totally unrelated events, Colonia Tovar comes about much later in 1843 as a project by the venezuelan government so as to settle the underpopuladed countryside due to the great human cost during the Indepedence War early XIX C.
Te cuento algo, los Antropologo venezolanos cuentan que a estas tierras llegaron primero, chinos, mongoles, vikingos y Árabes, antes de la llegada de Europa, ya hay estudios sobre eso... Por eso la Multietnicidad de los venezolanos.
Well done!!!
The town was founded by inmigrants from the Black Forest region, well knowned for their agricultural produce, hospitality industry and the Church of Saint Martin of Tours, lovely place and great weather.
The town has kept many old traditions and customs by their descendents and the same can be said about thousands of german towns and cities all across the America's.
Although is the best known, Colonia Tovar is just one of many towns and small cities founded in the late XIX and XX centhuries throughout Venezuela as agricultural colonies build and populated by inmigrants from all over west and central europe such as germans, austrians, swiss, italians, corsican, danes etc.
The subtropical and tropical climate of venezuela's interior regions proved challenging for european inmigrants since colonial times, it meant adapting to new crops, life habits, a hot climate and above all, deadly malaria outbreaks, that's the main reason european settlement was not as throrough as in the southern cone of the continent or North America, is not until air conditioning possible thanks to electrification that population density of the tropical regions of the America's including many parts of the south of the USA increased.
Who knows, perhaps when our national ordeal comes to past, a new generation of german farmers and entrepreneurs will have the fertile valleys and hills of Venezuela as their new home and write a new chapter in Venezuela's long (and little explored) history with Germany.
and was Venezuela one of the most german countries in latin america? did Venezuela get a lot of immigrants after ww2? Venezuela did have an advantage of having more colder areas than the domincian republic, so it makes sense why they received more european migrants.
@@pedrodeltoral778 Venezuela didn’t receive that many Germans, mostly Italians, Spanish and Portuguese which have heavily impacted the culture and cuisine (pasticho (Ítalo-veneuzelan), cachitos (Porto-Venezuelan, etc. they mostly came after the wars while the country was rich from oil.
so same applies to Argentina where Argentina didn't receive many germans compared to italians and spaniards.
Samuel. one fun fact is that Argentina didn't received as many germans as italians and spaniards.
@@pedrodeltoral778Brazil and Argentina recieved a bigger share of german inmigrants, Venezuela recieved mostly inmigrants from Spain, Portugal and Italy.
I noticed a clear venezuelan accent in the German spoken by the lady.
A strong venezuelan accent in her standard german. She was speaking their dialect.
@@horestra She did not speak in her dialect and yes , she had an accent.
@@samogavorto8763 you’re correct. I made a typo. I meant She wasn’t speaking their dialect. She spoke standard german all the way.
Yes, but the old guy doesn't have it... I'm also curious about that. I know that in their household German descents speak German, either the dialect or the Standard form(s). So, who knows, She has appeared in other reports though she might be just willing to speak the language in public.
Her family's been in Venezuela since the 1800s. Of course she has a Venezuelan accent.🥴
The colonia Tovar is a German town in venezuelan and the majority of the people in the town are of German roots, they speak German dialect and keep the German cultures, I remember going to colonia Tovar and it seem to me like I was in Germany, everything was german and even the people, not only in colonia tovar but through the whole country, since venezuela is the third country in Latin America with most Germans after Brazil and Argentina! 🇻🇪
The rest of Venezuela is not German.
@@charlesthegreat2509 Venezuela, before belonging to the Spanish empire, was led by a powerful German family and it was called Klein Venedig and cities like Maracaibo were founded by them and many of their descendants remained, as well as many European immigrants such as Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese who came to Venezuela for what that there are many white people like in Argentina
@@maraguilucho
Holocaust commanding officers are resident of this town.
j ai visité cette ville il y a 25 ans avec mon ami de Caracas. Ça me semble encore plus beau maintenant! J y ai tres bien mangé et bu. L air est frais et pur . C est tres pres de la ville donc un détour obligatoire pour un repas ou 2 3 jours. J y ai decouvert le chicheron.
Thank you for taking notice of the origines of the Colonia Tovar, glad to know my pleas in the other video were taken in account.
Holocaust commanding officers are resident of this town.
I’ve been to Colonial Tovar when I lived in Venezuela. I had forgotten about it!
Came curious for this knew report and ended up finding what I was looking for, thank you!!
It's interesting to listen to a person speaking german with a center
venezuelan accent.
Venezuela, belonging to the Spanish empire under emperor Charles V, was led by the Welser a powerful German family of Augsburg. The province in 1528 was called Klein Venedig and the small harsh city of Santa Ana de Coro at the NW, became the Neu Augsburg , its Capitaland. Cities like Neu Ulm (today Cabimas) and Neu Nuremberg (actual Maracaibo) were founded by the Welser and many of their descendants remained in towns as El Tocuyo , Barquisimeto, Quibor , Cuara and Sanare as well as many European immigrants such as Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese who came to Venezuela for what that there are many white people like in Argentina.
The subtropical and tropical climate of Venezuela's interior regions proved challenging for european inmigrants since colonial times, it meant adapting to new crops, life habits, a hot climate and above all, deadly malaria outbreaks, that's the main reason European settlement was not as thorough as in the southern cone of the continent or North America, is not until air conditioning possible thanks to electrification that population density of the tropical regions of the America's including many parts of the south of the USA increased.
Who knows, perhaps when our national ordeal comes to past, a new generation of German farmers and entrepreneurs will have the fertile valleys and hills of Venezuela as their new home and write a new chapter in Venezuela's long (and little explored) history with Germany.
I LOVE Venezuela und Deutschland ❤
I love the way he give additional information about Argentina and Chile
Hey asian
Absolutely beautiful. For those that visit from other countries, go with a group or with locals. The areas between there and Caracas, including the roads, are extremely dangerous, unfortunately.
I didn't appreciate the approach of the journalist. I felt he was subtly making fun of the city, and the language, calling it "funny old german."
Thank you for your comment. It's a pity you don't like the video so much. In no way did Sebastian mean to make fun of the Basque language. But good to know how it comes across to some.
Definitively, it was a disrespectful approach. No doubt this journalist was making fun of it.
@@DWTravelbasque? Haha isn't that in Spain? Lol was that another joke?
It's only funny old English humor
It's only funny old English humor
What a nice short report!
genial, cool, gran visita
Good morning beautiful world 🌎 this is my beautiful colonial tovar part of my land what part of my angels my family's brothers sisters We are One 🌎❤
I've been there so many times love it
So amazing.
Black forest ham.. Campesino bread, and the German white sauce.. Oh my.. That's what we used to buy there
Es lo más parecido a Alemania. Así de extraordinario es Venezuela, el mejor país del mundo.
En esa aldea pagan con bolivares o dolares? Cuantos millones de bolivares valdria un rollo de papel higienico? Tienen papel higienico en primer lugar o lo hacen estilo arcaico con una tusa?
@@lobomalsano ¿Te echas detergente por la nariz?
Como venezolano el meme chauvnista del "mejor país del mundo" es insultante, entiendo que tal vez sea una muestra de positivismo (tóxico) pero Venezuela en este momento historico es una nación/sociedad fracasada, tardaremos generaciones en reparar el daño.
@@XxLIVRAxX "en este momento?" . Jajajaja.
@@lobomalsano este pana cree que vzla vive en 2016 y que no hay ni papel xd 😂
venezuela siempre recibido con mucho amor todos los extrajeros del mundo por desgracia por cuestiones políticas y economicas no se les recomienda venga ahora los extranjeros por pasamos una crisis muy fuerte
Look amazing!
to be honest - I could understand the woman in the end better than the interviewer.
Die Dame am Ende konnte man jedenfalls ganz gut verstehen.
Gracias por realizar el reportaje de la Colonia Tovar, mi familia por parte de mi padre son de la Colonia.
Saludos
Wobei der ,Ranzen’ als Ausdruck für ,Bauch’ zumindest im Schwäbischen bis heute Verwendung findet.
Ja, der Ausdruck ist auch in anderen Regionen Deutschlands geläufig. Aber "ranzig" für "schwanger" kannten wir zumindest noch nicht!
you should come to Mexico, in the north of the country there are people who speak german, well I think is a dialect, it would be great to watch a vídeo about them
I was actually there for a business trip. It’s a menonites community not very far from Chihuahua. They speak Plattdeutsch which is also called Low German and I believe is closer to Dutch than German itself. They barely speak Spanish and they can’t couple with people outside their community.
Great beer breweries up there
"When travelling south American there's one thing your sure to find: Germans" one of the funniest things I've EVER heard 🤣🙌🙌
When I still had family in Venezuela I used to visit there 35-30 years ago. The strawberries and cream were excellent , I would also buy the local beer and spreelbrot..this was of course before Chavez and Maburro destroyed the country....but my favorite was stopping at neighboring El Junquito on the way back , famous for their deep fried pork platters with arepas and hallaquitas
VENEZUELA Best Forever !
🇩🇪🇻🇪🤠👍
The first germans, polish, czechs, flemish (belgians), swiss and maybe from other central european countries to set foot on continental mainland of New World was in 1529, so as to work as miners to search El Dorado in actual Venezuela . The leased colony by Emperor Charles V to the banker family of Welser was called "Klein Venedig" and its capital Coro was named "Neu Augsburg", Maracaibo "Neu Nüremberg" and Cabimas o "Neu Ulm". Some expeditions inland departed from Coro and El Tocuyo (also given a german name as Tocuyothal) searching for El Dorado. "Klein Venedig" didn't last long though, this was due to both poor results and complaints from miners and locals, thus Emperor Charles V didn't renew the contract to the Welsers (bankers from Augsburg). Some very old and forgotten cemeteries in NW Venezuela may have some surnames still, no idea. This was at a time when the portuguese were still exploring lands which soon later became Brazil and the spanish just arriving to Cuzco and the River Plate. 🇩🇪🇻🇪 🤠👍
That's right the reasons of the Welser expeditions was to find Eldorado for that, they didn't make a culture legacy and now Maracaibo (The principal city than they created ) doesn't have nothing of germ an culture appart of the Tovar colony established in 1842. But in the Second World War with the germans emigration they build and reapairs so much of his old colonies these new villages start to buiding to equaty than in otrers countries like Peru, Brasil, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina that's when they finally make a legacy in that's countries (Culture legacy). sorry for the fails in the coment, my english is not very nice .
What is curious is the venezuelan liking for some central european tastes atypical for tropical latinamerica: maltzgetränke (malta), probably the highest per capita consumption in the world, tartar sauce for hot dogs (salsa tartara o la misma "alemana" para perros calientes), münster cheese (queso munster), dutch cheeses (quesos holandeses), smoked andean cheese similar to rauchkäse (queso ahumado andino similar al rauchkäse), the sulzer, polish style sausages for hotdog making (salchichas tipo polacas para perros calientes), the traditional potato (+ chicken & apple) christmas salad similar to austrian and german christmas salads (ensalada de papas navideña similar a la ensalada de papas navideña alemana). Appart, the "tradition" for the christmas pine tree (aparte, la "tradición" del pino navideño). Maybe more.
It's probably related to a tiny "DNA memory" component as most of those foods were introduced way much later during the XX century. No research has ever been done about it though.
El Dorado es leyenda de Colombia, no de Venezuela
@@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061
ELDORADO nunca se ubicó es una leyenda desde la llegada de los españoles a las Antillas.
Lo de Culombia es un Bluff
@@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061 El Dorado no es una leyenda de Colombia. De hecho, El Dorado nunca fue conseguido, los conquistadores primero llegaron a Venezuela, entrando por el Delta del Orinoco creyendo que podían conseguirlo por ahi y al enfrentarse a tan fuerte caudal tuvieron miedo y se regresaron para ir bordeando la costa.
@@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061esa leyenda es de toda América
Hermsa ciudad
No sul do Brasil existe milhares de descendentes de alemães, pesquise por Gramado Brasil
Essa cidade da Venezuela parece até mais alemã que todas as colônias do Sul
@@cremie4930a city in brazil has way more Germans than this city in Venezuela
Pomerode, Blumenau
Funny, it really looks a bit like my surrounding neighborhood 😀.
Holocaust commanding officers are resident of this town.
How do you move there as a tourist?
Are busses running normally?
Also regarding the chaos surrounding the currency and ATMs...what's that like nowadays?
Transport in Venezuela is very poor when compared to other developing countries. But if you plan it, you can pay a tour and they take you from Caracas to Colonia Tovar (it’s like 1 1/2 hours trip) and completely safe. On the currency matter, I can attest that most of these businesses support international cards. The ones that don’t admit it you can pay with dollars and probably euros.
About safety, it's totally and absolutely safe. Plus, it makes a very pleasant spring weather.
Please don’t use public transportation to go there. There might be day trips you can purchase leaving from Caracas for sure. I don’t know any but I’d be surprised if there isn’t any.
There is a town like that in Peru called Pozuzo Peru very different from the rest of Peru.
Interesting. Different in which way? Is it German too?
@@DWTravel yes!!!
This is the most beautiful time in The Weeknd😂❤❤
Approfittato senza di me que arrecho. 😊😢
I just know they've got that area locked down tight against any cartel. I imagine it's a if you don't mess with us we won't mess with you relationship.
You should go on a weekend, when there are more activities. A normal weekday is like that... almost no one on the street and no much to do. Come back again in a weekend!
My girlfriend in Venezuela is dying, if you feel kind will you help her please. Your little help can save her life. Will you do it please 🥺
in Peru call OXAPAMPA
❤❤❤❤Schon
Her old German is for me as a Dutch person better to understand and we use ranzig 😂
Most British are like that? Good but no the same... I guess that will do it. If you are not going to said something positive don't say anything. It's a bit arrogant from your side.
Por esa razón los pocos Británicos que hay en Venezuela, estan enterrados en los cementerios.
Schlager fur Alle!! 😂
They did it mostly in the 40s.
ARAGUA
was this one of those towns that popped up after ww2?
No, it was founded 1843 by Immigrants from the ( at that time) independent state of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Germany as a state did not yet exist at that time.
NO
Pasa por mi casa soy tamien yo capitalista o pa de mas el globo.
Germany Caribeam
Venezuela is pretty far from Argentina so how many Germans are there? When I was in Ecuador I also found a bunch of Germans and one guy pretended to not be one and he was like 98 and obsessed with gold lol we would ask if he was from Germany Austria or Switzerland and he'd swear he was from Ecuador in his Thick German Accent lol the town of vilcabamba had so many jokes about him haha
Is Claus Barbie there
Jajajajaja qué hacen en Venezuela, deberían venir a Perú 🇵🇪, la Gastronomía en Perú es superior en toda Sudamérica 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
nmms si puro indigenas ahi aya y la infra estrutura pesima nisiquiera lllegan a completar sus casas , estuve en pe
Peru no es nada comparado con venezuela, nada. Apenas en el 2023 terminaron una linea de un metro me parece. jaja
es verdad jajajaj@@angelhernand1057
@@angelhernand1057 Pobrezuela hasta la mu3,rt3.
Ich denke, dass mehr Deutsche in das Tovar-Viertel ziehen sollten, damit die deutsche Sprache in dieser schönen Stadt nicht ausstirbt.
Das Mädchen soll für ihre Familie Deutsch sprechen.
Ich komme aus Venezuela und ich kenne sehr gut der colonia tovar .leider sehr wenig menschen jetzt dort koennen deutsch sprechen
venezuela fue estados unidos de venezuela la migracion del mundo entero estubo allí
Cuánto paga Maduro a estos canales para hacer publicidad de turismo en Venezuela?
Qué comentario tan ridículo. La Colonia Tovar es lo que es de toda la vida, esté el dictadorzuelo o no.
Esto no tiene nada que ver con política, es solo un pequeño reporte curioso.
Busca e investiga sobre la Colonia Tovar, esto no tiene nada que ver con politica, pon en resguardo tus visceras
Cuánto te pagan a ti por hablar y odiar a Venezuela y los venezolanos. Cuánto 🤔 Mmgb 🤫
I thought Venezuela was a country with very significant economic problems due to terrible political management.
RS.
Of course it is. But Colonia Tovar was able to survive the crisis all these years. Tourism has been growing up lately in the country
Why do you think they came to America
Where is Latino America? Must be a brit.
They went to Venezuela and others sa countries after the ww2.
Before.. 1840
Colonia Tovar was found a lot of years before WW2
Presidents just working fir his own benefits ❤😂
Its more Dutch German then German what she speaks we say ranzig haha
All this guy can do is whine and complain.
and no one speaks English....
Why should they? Im Salvadorean, living in Germany, I dont expect everyone to speak english.
Why would they speak in English? They are Venezuelans with German heritage, they speak German and Spanish.
Gross
You were there to enjoy the place or to speak Deutsch?? Good to Germany and speak there!! Pajuoooo
Just don't ask them where their grandfathers were doing in Ukraine and Poland in the early 1940s!
Well, considering they came in 1840s, probably not much other then farming.
Holocaust commanding officers are resident of this town.
This is not the topic of our video.
@@DWTravel But thats the truth. Are you hurt?
No, of course that doesn't hurt us. It's just a strong claim that we can't verify right now. And it wasn't the topic of our research there either.
please give more context, evidence.
Tal vez uno que otro, pero la mayoría emigraron a Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Paraguay y Chile.
I wonder what the crime rate is...😂