Everything about San Bernardino Paraguay totally explained
San Bernardino or San Ber is a town in
Paraguay, located on the shores of
Lake Ypacarai in the
Cordillera Department. It is a popular holiday resort for people from
Asunción, both
Alfredo Stroessner and former Nicaraguan president
Anastasio Somoza have had lakehouse there.
The town contains a museum, a rathaus, a bierstube and a cemetery that contains the grave of
Los Paraguayos singer
Luis Alberto del Paraná.
The town was founded in
1881 by German immigrants who named the town New Bavaria. More Germans came from
Tanganyika and the
Sudetenland after the
First World War, though the town was renamed after General
Bernardino Caballero, president of Paraguay
1880 -
1886.
The Lake Hotel in San Bernardino was where the German nationalist
Dr. Bernhard Förster spent the last 6 weeks of his life, before committing suicide on 3rd June
1889 by taking an overdose of
strychnine. Inspired by a writing of
Richard Wagner's, and his own strong anti-semitism, he set out to found a German settlement in Paraguay with his wife
Elisabeth Förster née Nietzsche (sister of the philosopher) and some German families. Their efforts, at a site called
Nueva Germania, failed dismally causing Förster to leave for San Bernardino.
Förster was buried in the town's cemetery. As Nazism became increasingly popular amongst Paraguay's German community in the 1930's, Förster became something of a hero. In
1934 Adolf Hitler ordered a small memorial service to take place at his graveside, with German soil sent to sprinkle over the grave.
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